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Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a letter arrived through the post. In it was a small black-and-white photograph of Kari as a young baby, the first she had ever seen.

Kari was to finally discover the dark secret of her conception: She was a Lebensborn child, part of Hitler's 'Spring of Life' programme, which encouraged Nazi soldiers to have children with Scandinavian women in order to create an Aryan race.

And so began a journey back to her roots: to Norway where, at 10 days old, she was taken from her mother, packed into a crate and sent to Germany to join the other Lebensborn children; to post-War Germany and her eventual rescue by the Red Cross from an attic, a tiny, neglected outcast of a dead regime.

Nowhere's Child is a remarkable story of reconciliation, of forging new beginnings from a dark past and of the discovery of family later in life. Ultimately, it is the life-affirming account of what it really means to find a place called home.

Says one Amazon reviewer: “I found the book to be a very good, easy read. I am interested in stories from the Nazi era and this revealed the other side of Hitler's master plan.” And another: “A look into a part of WW II German history that is often overlooked.”

Nowhere's Child by Kari Rosvall with Naomi Linehan is a 2015 first edition published by Hachette Books, Ireland.

It is a near-new 278-page 15.5x23.5cm card soft cover with an interesting section of photographs.

It is subtitled The Inspiring Story of How One Women Survived Hitler's Breeding Camps and Found a Home in Ireland.

There is a $39.99 Whitcoulls price sticker on the back cover.

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