The Morning Gift is a bestselling novel by the English author Eva Ibbotson, based on her own experience as a refugee.The story is set during the prelude and beginning of the Second World War and combines a picture of 1930s emigrant life with a love story.First published in 1993, the book very soon became a bestseller. It was reissued in 2007, after briefly being out of print, where copies of the book changed hands for over GBP 100 a piece.