We Who Decide

<p><em>We Who Decide</em> is a story of deceit lies and ambiguity; a fictionalised tale of a woman who became a doyen of post-war Sydney's haute couture. It describes the life of Shoshanna Liebler an 18-year-old European Jewess who on the eve of the Anschluss of 1938 flees Austria for Australia. A renowned high-fashion designer known affectionately as ZaSu collaborates with her parents and brother in the family business. For more than a century the House of Liebler designed and manufactured military and police uniforms for the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. Determined to modernise the group's business ZaSu develops a portfolio of affordable creations for Europe's leading fashion houses. </p><p><br></p><p>Entrepreneur Ashton Frost of the fictional Sydney-based Frost Emporium is determined to incorporate the Liebler style into his family's retail chain. Frost finances ZaSu's journey to Australia but her new life begins in a detention wing of the Long Bay prison. Upon release ZaSu decides to obscure her identity religion and sexuality if she is to succeed in a conservative country about which she knows nothing. Cut off from her family and a trusted aide-de-camp ZaSu is desperate to uncover the truth about the fate of her mother father and brother.</p>