num_pages: 216
description: 'A remarkable book about the hardest of beginnings written in a voice that is vibrant, sparkling, full of irrepressible humour, compassionate intelligence and ultimately forgiveness' Catherine Simpson 
  
  
  
  For fans of Educated, this is the remarkable true story of a girl from a Romani ghetto in search of a better life.
  
  
  
 
  'My mother's side of the family are Romani. Gypsies. No baby-snatching and tambourines, just resilient souls and richly coloured skin. I look most like them, with my brown eyes and scars. I don't have the richly coloured skin, though. Instead of deep bronze or golden ochre, I came out the colour of sunflower oil and, thanks to childhood malnutrition followed by years of low iron levels, I'm now the shade of an off-brand Simpson.'
 
  
    
  
 
  Eliska Tanzer is a dreamer.
Born into a family of prostitutes in a Romani ghetto, she grows up in squalid conditions, with no running water, no education, and no future.Desperate to make her own way in the world, Eliska sets in motion a chain of events that will lead her to England, to school, and to within inches of her dreams.But the brutalities of her new life threaten to turn the dream into a nightmare.This is her story. A true story of resilience, determination, and hunger to learn. A story of a girl on the brink.
  A moving and timely memoir from a powerful new voice in literature.
  

language: English
title: The Girl from Nowhere
publisher: Mirror Books