MEDIA FEATURES
NZ HERALD
MAGIC AFTERNOONS
RADIO NEW ZEALAND - BOOKMARKS
RSA Australia Review
Australian Women’s Weekly
The Project New Zealand Interview
Paper Plus Sue’s Reviews
Whitcoulls Mother’s Day Mailer
Catherine Rayes Radio REview
Brisbane Courier Mail
Good Read Reviews
Read what people have to say: http://bit.ly/DougGoldGoodReads
MORE FM NORTHLAND
NEWSROOM Article
North and South Magazine
When New Zealand soldier Bruce Murray and Slovenian partisan Josefine Lobnik first met, he was behind the wire of a POW camp and she was on the other side disguised as an old woman. This is their real-life wartime love story, which we know from the start will have a happy ending back in New Zealand.
As World War II non-fiction novels go, it’s as gripping as it gets; good by any standards, not just in the narrow category of tales told by co-founders of radio networks. It should be notes that top-shelf ghost writer John McCrystal also had a hand in the book.
Coincidences as outlandish as any Victor Hugo ever imagined conspire to bring the lovers together. Gold alternates between the pair’s separate stories for the first part of the book: Bruce Murray is the Kiwi soldier as innocent abroad, whom we have encountered many times before; Josefine Lobnik is the brave partisan, all of whose family are at risk from the Nazis occupying their country.
The book is full of brave deeds, betrayals, suspenseful near misses and horrendous atrocities - more than one might imagine any two people being able to survive with their psyches intact.
Nor did their battles end when the war did. Bureaucracy was one thing that conspired to keep apart the two - who had by now fallen in love - wiht Murray forced to return to New Zealand and denied permission to return to find Lobnik in Europe. Her family did their bit by handing the love letters he sent to her.
The protagonists died before Gold - their son-in-law - could conduct proper interviews with them, but he has done a fine job of collating disparate material and imagining some of the rest to create his narrative.
RONA BOOKS
Friday Feature book "The Note through the Wire" by Doug Gold.
Love historical novels?
"The Note through the Wire" by Doug Gold is a true story of love in the middle of war.
"A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine, and their incredible true story."
Heather Morris, the author of "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" called it "unforgettable" and couldn't recommend it enough. The characters and the history really make this story... "Woven through their tales of great bravery, daring escapes, betrayal, torture and retaliation is their remarkable love story that survived against all odds. This is an extraordinary account of two ordinary people living through the unimaginable hardship of Hitler's barbaric regime."
So there it is, if you loved the Tattooist of Auschwitz, this book should definitely be on your radar. It's certainly on ours.
A.J.
