The Journey – Prologue to Hell | Austin Macauley Publishers

The Journey – Prologue to Hell is indeed what the book’s title tells all its readers. It gives exactly the train passengers’ experience to those who’d been gathered up from their homes to be transported on it. To what, those passengers had wondered. Given false knowledge of a wonderful life they were being taken to by Nazis who’d dragged them out onto the road into waiting lorries then onto a train, they soon found that was false. They discovered the train journey didn’t lie, though; it showed its passengers the truth long before it ended.

Audrey Hooker was born in Liverpool where she was educated and then worked in a bank there. She later moved to London, where she was able, having kept up her writing whenever possible, to be a journalist for a trade and technical magazines publisher for eight years until she married, and set up a small printing company from knowledge gained through writing on printing. She ran the company until she retired, and then set about writing fiction.