A Week In September

Doug Heywood was a teenager when he discovered, in a shoebox hidden in a wardrobe, hundreds ofletters, all written by his father, Scott Heywood. As a POW on the infamous Burma Railway, Scott wrote almost daily to hisyoung wife, Margery, on scraps of paper that had to be hidden from guards. These letters tell of an enduring love - and also,intriguingly, of how Scott dealt with the most brutally testing circumstances.Scott's story has echoes of another storyhappening 7000 kilometres away at the same time. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, was rounded up with his family and sent toAuschwitz in September 1942. Frankl later wrote in his classic book Man's Search for Meaning that the last of the humanfreedoms was the ability 'to choose one's attitude in any set of circumstances'. Scott Heywood and Viktor Frankl, onopposite sides of the world, found their own ways to survive that were uncannily similar.This is the untold story of oneman, one ordinary man, and his war. Woven through it is Margery's story, as she waited anxiously with their two youngchildren in rural Victoria, trapped in an emotional rollercoaster, unaware that he was writing letters to her that could not beposted. This is a powerful and moving story of love, resilience and survival.…