Promise fulfilled

Ian Buruma’s loving memoir of his grandparents — Bernard and Winifred (“Bun” and “Win”) — Their Promised Land, left the JC’s admiring reviewer Julia Neuberger “tearful with nostalgia” and garnered praise generally. Now available in paperback (Atlantic Books, £9.99), in its sensitive use of his grandparents’ letters written when they were separated by war, it offers new readers a warm evocation of Englishness and Jewishness.