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Everyone has a story to tell, as Dr Johnson intimated, and everyone has a story worth telling. This is precisely what Janice Madden has done, in her gathering together of personal accounts of the devastated lives of the refugees of our times.

They are powerful, moving, humbling tales, from diverse cultures, but unified by a shared experience of persecution, a desire to preserve identity and language, and a sense of the indomitable power of love. The stories are an awe-inspiring testimonial to the fortitude of the human spirit in the face of inhumanity. They are private, yet universal, for they represent the personal histories of countless others. And they are rarely heard. As Michael says, in The Road: "My story has never been told. No one asked me to tell it."

Thanks to Janice Madden, that has changed now.

Professor David Crystal, Jan 2010

Book Information

• Published: 2010
• Type: Paperback
• Author: Janice Madden
• ISBN: 978-0-646-53420-6