Foreigner - The Story of Grace Morton

Oxford University Press, Wellington, 1979. Red cloth boards with gilt titles on the spine. In very tidy condition with DW. 215pp, tight binding. Dust-jacket has minor edge wear and chipping.
Grace Morton was brought up in old China. Her childhood was punctated by terrifying glimpses of war and revolution. As a young woman in England she studied at Cambridge to be a teachser. In international Shanghai she wore Parisian fashions and dance the night through. When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia, Grace Morton and her husband were there. For eight dangerous months they outwitted the Gestapo to save hundreds of Jews from the threat of death. Their own escape brought them to New Zealand, another alien land. Grace faced loneliness, and the long mundane struggle of a solo mother rearing her child.
Grace Morton's friend Stanley Roche has shaped her rich past into a prize-winning biography. FOREIGNER was joint winner of the 1978 Oxford Quincentenary Biography Competition in New Zealand. from the dust-jacket.