We Must Be Brave - Hardcover

Liardet, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008280134 ISBN 13: 9780008280130

Publisher: London : 4th Estate

Synopsis

A womanA warA child that changed everythingThis is storytelling at its best Sarah WinmanThe perfect book club read AJ PearceJust perfect Jill MansellA tale of love, loss and resilienceMail on SundayShe was fast asleep on the back seat of the bus. Curled up, thumb in mouth. Four, maybe five years old. I turned around. The last few passengers were shuffling away from me down the aisle to the doors. Whose is this child I called. Nobody looked back.December, 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, the citys residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly-married Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone.Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband Selwyn had dreamed for themselves. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keepA story of courage and kindness, hardship and friendship, We Must be Brave explores the fierce love we feel for our children and the astonishing power of that love to endure.

About this edition

• Publisher: London : 4th Estate
• ISBN 10: 0008280134
• ISBN 13: 9780008280130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1