This labour of love is one of those picture books that ascends into the realm of a beautiful work of art. But further than this, Andy Mia Kranz’s book is one with a moral imperative; it tells the story of how her father Henryk … was hidden as a child during the Shoah (Holocaust). The full-page paintings, at points awash with cerulean blue, are quietly glorious; they contain a sense of the numinous. The Secret Home is poetically told, inferring the horror — ‘In the hiding place the years followed one another, Henryk turned four/ then five/ then six’

– but mostly it is about radical kindness and survival. It feels particularly apt to be reading it during these precarious times. A sacred object for humans of all ages.

@TaliLavi1 Tali Lavi —writer, reviewer and public interviewer. March 2020

Evocatively written, The Secret Home is enhanced by the simple and subdued watercolour paintings that fill full pages and enrich the gentle yet powerful message within.

Allison Paterson, Magpies Magazine November 2020