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Title details for We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet - Available

We Must Be Brave

by Frances Liardet
Penelope Freeman
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We can't choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. 'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'Storytelling at its best' Sarah Winman 'The perfect book club read' AJ Pearce Ellen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the back of a bus fleeing the Blitz in Southampton, everything she once believed is overturned. As she takes Pamela into her home, the little girl cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she thought she wanted, for in uncertain times it seems the only certainty is love. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never hers to keep... We Must Be Brave is an epic and intensely moving novel about the ways we rescue one other, and the astonishing tenacity of the human heart.

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    February 7, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780008280178
      • File size: 465426 KB
      • Duration: 16:09:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Jayne Entwistle outdoes herself with this moving story, which takes place in England from WWII to 2010. Ellen Parr methodically assists bombing survivors brought to her village. Entwistle captures the kind, childless Parr when she discovers abandoned 4-year-old Pamela. Descriptions of the rattled evacuees, kindly townsfolk, and bewildered Pamela are atmospheric. Listeners also learn what Parr has overcome and meet her memorable circle of friends. Entwistle particularly shines as precocious Pamela and demonstrates Parr's growing love for the child. It's heartbreaking when Pamela's father, a widower, arrives. Parr's rich life--friends, nature, food--along with her constant sense of loss is impeccably conveyed. Juliet Mills's spirited narration begins in 2010, when Parr and Pamela are finally reunited in a conclusion that is satisfying without being sentimental. S.G.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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