Australian journalist and broadcaster Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval's book on the search for her biological father starts with her musing on why the man she'd known as her Dad, wasn't already dead. Her parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who had settled in Melbourne a few years after the end of World War 2. But their relationship was an uneasy one. Some years after her mother's early death in her late 40's, Ramona, a journalist and broadcaster, began following up the clues that her parentage wasn't as straightforward as it seemed.