Thistledown Seed

** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family's tragic past made famous in the Oscar-winning movie, Shine , about her brother David Helfgott. The floating thistledown seed, often seen in Europe during summ