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''The Morning Gift'' is a bestselling novel by the English author Eva Ibbotson, based on her own experience as a refugee. The story is set during the prelude and beginning of the Second World War and combines a picture of 1930s emigrant life with a love story. First published in 1993, the book very soon became a bestseller. It was reissued in 2007, after briefly being out of print, where copies of the book changed hands for over GBP 100 a piece.〔''Camden New Journal'', "How the schnitzel came to London's leafy streets", 2004〕 ==Background== The book is based on Eva Ibbotson's own experience as a refugee and many elements and characters within the novel follow events and people in her own life. Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925 to a scientist father and the acclaimed writer Anna Gmeyner
A few years later her parents separated and Ibbotson moved to Berlin with her mother, who worked with the legends of the Weimar Republic, like Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler and G. W. Pabst.〔Nicholas Tucker (Obituary: Eva Ibbotson, ) ''The Independent'', 26 October 2010〕 When Anna Gmeyner had to relocate to Paris for work in 1933, Ibbotson was sent back to her grandparents in Vienna. In 1935 Gmeyner's work was banned by the Nazi Party and she fled to England like many others in the years after Hitler came to power. Her daughter had to flee Vienna, and Ibbotson joined her mother at Belsize Park in north-west London.〔"How the schnitzel came to London's leafy streets", by Jane Wright, ''Camden New Journal'', 2004〕 Her escape from Austria, the experience of being uprooted from her life in Vienna, and her new life as a refugee in Belsize Park would later become the backbone of Ibbotson's novel ''The Morning Gift''. ..."''its streets abounded with Jewish doctors and lawyers and school children; with Communists and Social Democrats, with actors and writers and bankers of no particular political persuasion who had spoken out against the Nazis. The war had not yet come, but these refugees saw its necessity as the English could not yet do. They used their humour to keep the terror and desolation at bay, but it was always there. This band of exiles had been deprived in a few years of the certainty of centuries''"... The experience of fleeing Vienna and the sight of friends and relatives who came through London as refugees, desperate and in fear, became a strong thread throughout Eva Ibbotson's life and work as her son Piers Ibbotson recently recalled in an interview.〔Eva Ibbotson's son speaks about her legacy, by Hannah Davies, ''The Journal'', 2011piers ibbotson〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Morning Gift」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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