Reparation

Her job, her family, her lover - which will she choose? 1997, TV journalist Elizabeth is pursuing a story of a child's disappearance in the north London Hasidic community. In the wake of her father's sudden death and her alcoholic mother's increasing obsession with her childhood in wartime Hungary, she struggles to manage her job and her relationship. Then she gets a phone call to say that her mother has been arrested in Budapest. Elizabeth is forced to confront the nature of motherhood, love and loss as she puts together the clues to her mother's past and to the fate of the lost little girl. 'Ambitious... Gaby Koppel has taken on some of the most powerful and enduring themes: justice, restitution and irrecoverable loss' Jonathan Freedland

Gaby Koppel grew up in Cardiff and studied at the University of Sussex. She is a journalist, film-maker and producer with credits across a broad range of factual television including Crimewatch UK and Watchdog for BBC TV. In 2001 she staged the first ever national event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. Gaby started writing her debut novel Reparation while doing a Masters degree in Creative Writing at City University, where it won a prize and was later long-listed for the Bath Novel Award. She continues to work as a television series producer and freelance print journalist while working on a second novel. She is married with three children and lives in North London.