The Door Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1997) Blessed to receive life’s golden

Blessed to receive life’s golden ticket - a second chance - after surviving a dramatic car accident

What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night

communicate more clearly

watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations of  Tinker

she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her

The Door Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1997) Blessed to receive life’s goldenThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public spirited, with an on again off again relationship to Hungarys Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magdas housekeeper and she has taken control over