The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly.

Local author Alice Jolly’s new novel is a stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a

young girl’s battle for survival and the search for truth in Nazi Vienna.

Adelheid Brunner is mute, but writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one

thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of the child, and takes her to Dr

Asperger’s paediatric clinic. During Adelheid’s time as an in-patient, she makes herself

invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, and listening in on conversations