Jane Haining

'Miller balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account, the message of which sombrely resonates today'

-- Nicole Gemine * Press and Journal *

'Mary Miller has written a detailed and very moving biography and Jane Haining is widely recognised as a woman of rare and noble character. Her story is both moving and ultimately horrifying and Miller tells it extremely well'

-- Allan Massie * Scotsman *

'In this well-researched and clearly written book Mary Miller pieces together the fragments of Jane Haining’s life. Haining’s firm moral compass emerges clearly, making her story heroic as well as heart-rending. Materially, she may have left little behind, but her legacy is enduring'

* Church Times *

'The story of a woman so committed to staying with her students as a missionary teacher that she risked and indeed suffered in the Holocaust is well told in this biography by Mary Miller'

* Methodist Recorder *

'Haining's is a terrible story but it is also an inspiring one, as as the stories of all those who looked evil in the face, and "no" to it'

* Catholic Herald *

'The definitive account of the life of the Dumfriesshire-born girl. Mary Miller has meticulously researched Jane Haining’s life and created a seamless and compelling acount'

* Life and Work *

'Meticulously researched, beautifully written and deeply moving. Mary Miller shows Jane not as a saint but as a living, breathing often laughing person. A fine biography about a fine and brave woman'

-- Maggie Craig

'Jane Haining, a Scottish woman killed by the Nazis for her work among Jews in wartime Hungary, has found the biographer that she deserves.  Soberly, movingly, Mary Miller tells the story of her life, and her death, in the service of an ideal. An inspiring tale of quiet heroism'

-- Neil MacGregor

'A biography as calm, meticulous and movingly humane as Jane Haining herself. Mary Miller has reclaimed the life of a woman who embodied the best of Scotland and the finest values of her faith - and done her proud'

-- Sally Magnu