"A fascinating book about a remarkable family." —Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes One scattered family and 200 years of European turmoil told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women 'That’s what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again … the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.’ Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women. Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris … here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, from the young actress in fin de siècle Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over 50 years. My Disappearing Uncle is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past. "A compulsive tangle of tales touching not only on lives, loves and the longing to belong, but also the brutality of war and injustice suffered again and yet again in Europe up to the present day." —Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor "Kathy writes lyrically about how "despite the scatter and distances between us, the extraordinary sinew of family remains", nourished in part by the fragmentary and selective stories that parents hand down to their children.'Meriel Schindler, author, The Lost Cafe Schindler "An astonishing book, beautifully written. Echoes of a middle-European Forsyte Saga later colliding with the brutal realities of Nazism, and what came next.’John Carr, author of Escape from the Ghetto Kathy Henderson is an award-winning children’s writer, poet and illustrator with more than 30 published books, winner of the Kurt Maschler Award and the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society and shortlisted for the Children’s Poetry Prize. With a background in literature, music and oral history she also compiled ' My Song is My Own, 100 women’s songs from the British Isles ', which has become an iconic book on the hidden voices of women. She has written for radio, visited hundreds of schools and libraries and been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.