Publisher's Synopsis
This is the true story of a woman's love for her handicapped child, told by one of Australia's leading TV personalities. When Elinda was born in 1958 with Down's Syndrome, her parents Betty and Herman Lissing were told that she had less than a week to live. Betty was determined to prove the diagnosis wrong: after seeing her family die in Auschwitz, she was determined to preserve her daughter's life.;Herman, however, believed that Elinda should be allowed to die peacefully - for him, she brought back memories of the concentration camp's "living dead".;The struggle between Betty and Herman almost destroyed their marriage - a marriage that had survived the horrors of Auschwitz.;This book was awarded a Certificate of Commendation in the Australian Christian Book of the Year Awards, 1988.
