In Vienna they survived a series of adventures and finally managed to cross the frontier of the Russian Zone of Austria with the aid of forged documents only to find themselves immured in an Allied refugee camp at Kufstein.The book goes on to tell of Christine's arrival in Paris where she found employment as nurse to a child her marriage to Georges a Hungarian whom she had previously encountered at Kufstein and the vicissitudes of their life together friendless in an alien country.Miss Arnothy has to a remarkable degree the ability to recapture her past experiences and this enables us to sympathise with and even to share the feelings of a young girl who is a refugee but who still longs to enjoy the youth she feels passing from her. IT Is NOT So EASY TO LIVE tells the story of her flight after she had escaped from Hungary with her parents. It was based on a diary written during the Russian siege of Budapest. CHRISTINE ARNOTHY'S first book I am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die was welcomed by the critics as one of the most remarkable personal documents of the war and as the work of a born writer. United Kingdom Reino Unido Reino Unido Royaume-Uni
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