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We must be brave / Frances Liardet.
Publication details: London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.Description: 419 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 0008280142
- 9780008280147
- 9780008280130
- Evacuation of civilians (1939-1945 : World War)
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- Care -- Fiction
- Adoptive parents -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Guardian and ward -- Fiction
- Foster children -- Fiction
- Villages -- England -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Fiction
- Abandoned children
- Foster mothers
- Mothers and daughters
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Southampton -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Foster mothers -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- England -- Southampton
- Southampton (England) -- Fiction
- 823.914 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LIA | Available | 068901 |
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In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then one day Pamela is taken away, screaming. Ellen is no stranger to sorrow, but when she returns to the quiet village life she's long lived, she finds herself asking: In a world changed by war, is it fair to wish for an unchanged heart?
