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name: Joanna Czechowska
about: Joanna Czechowska's father came to the UK from Poland during the war and fought with the RAF. He married her English mother after the war and settled in Derby. Joanna's early life was consumed with visits to the Polish club, Dom Polski, Polish Saturday school and the Polish language. She wrote the novel The Black Madonna of Derby (originally published in Polish under the title Goodbye Polsko) in 2008. The plot revolves around three generations of a Polish immigrant family living in Derby in the 1960s and 1970s. The sequel, Sweetest Enemy, was published in 2012 and continues the story of the family into the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the independent trade union Solidarity. Joanna now lives in London and works as the chief sub editor an Joanna Czechowska's father came to the UK from Poland during the war and fought with the RAF. He married her English mother after the war and settled in Derby. Joanna's early life was consumed with visits to the Polish club, Dom Polski, Polish Saturday school and the Polish language. She wrote the novel The Black Madonna of Derby (originally published in Polish under the title Goodbye Polsko) in 2008. The plot revolves around three generations of a Polish immigrant family living in Derby in the 1960s and 1970s. The sequel, Sweetest Enemy, was published in 2012 and continues the story of the family into the 1980s and 1990s with the rise of the independent trade union Solidarity. Joanna now lives in London and works as the chief sub editor and book review editor for Woman magazine.Print copies of The Black Madonna of Derby and Sweetest Enemy are available from www.amazon.co.uk ...more