The Changing Forms of Clouds

In 1940, a young student watched silently as the German army marched through the streets of Brussels. Her beloved father was an emigre Russian Jew, her restless, difficult mother a Belgian Catholic. Possibly watching with less innocent eyes was the young man who was to become her husband. Dalia met Dolf after the war; her family survived, his didn't. For Dalia, it was love at first sight; she came to Australia because Dolf wanted a new world. They set up home in Melbourne. Love, she believed, would conquer all. Four children, two husbands, a suicide attempt and several careers later, Dalia Millingen examines those things that made her who she is. This book is a tribute to the depth and constancy of love, of how one person can shape another's destiny with trauma as much as love.