"After the end of the Second World War, during which she was forced to hide from the Gestapo in Belgium, Alexandra Brodsky left Europe with her parents to join her brother in Australia. This journey changed her life completely. Through her eyes we experience the sea voyage and Sydney life in the 1940s and gain an original perspective on Australia at that time." "When the family had already decided to leave Australia and the return to Brussels had been planned, Alexandra met a young Australian scientist, Henry Harris, the man who would eventually become her husband. Caught between love and a sense of duty to her parents, she decided to go back to Europe as planned, but to return to Australia and marry. However, as she was on her way back to Australia, Henry was awarded an Overseas Scholarship of Oxford where he later became the Regius Professor of Medicine, and so they made their life together in England." "This memory also describes the time Brodsky spent working for the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Australian Jewish Welfare Society as an advocate and liaison officer for those displaced and bereft as a result of the war. Her vivid descriptions of the impact of post-war migration and life for a Jewish family after the war make this a most attractive and authentic cultural history.

In Pursuit of a Dream is both a memoir of a young girl's life and an account of a tumultuous period in history."--BOOK JACKET.