The Trespassers

Bookseller Notes

The author's debut, published in the US the year before the English edition is scarce. The novel concerns the great migration from Europe under the Nazis, and their struggles to achieve refuge in America, based on her own experiences of trying to obtain visas on behalf of a family. The extent of her knowledge and research of the issue is reflected in the euqal weight of facts and figures to narrative, and the work's polemical nature is adumbrated in the stark message added by the publisher to the dustjacket's front panel: 'Can such things be?'Hobson's second novel, 'Gentleman's Agreement', was a major success it was also the product, and the story of, meticulous research on the theme of anti-Semitism.