芭比‧普若博萊特（Barbie Probert－Wright）1939年齣生於德國，後移居英國，現年72歲。作者因參加英國第四頻道《理查與硃蒂》欄目的“齣版你的真實故事”競賽而獲奬，並獲得瞭與簡‧裏奇閤著齣版這本書的機會。

這是一個發生在作者身上的真實故事，第二次世界大戰中德國戰敗，7歲的作者跟隨姐姐徒步穿越瞭大半個德國，她們在火光與炮影下閃躲，並用勇氣和毅力譜寫瞭一首為愛奔走的生命練習麯。

This work features: two sisters, a broken childhood, and a heartbreaking journey. This is the extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable...In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot. Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother. For Barbie, twelve years younger, the journey was to be more perilous but, spurred on by her sister's courage and her desperate desire to be reunited with her mother, she joined Eva on a journey no child should ever have to endure. Over three hundred miles across a country ravaged by a terrible war, they encountered unimaginable hardship, extraordinary courage and overwhelming generosity. Against all the odds, they survived. But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed...