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    We Must Be Brave
    Audiobook16 hours

    We Must Be Brave

    Written by Frances Liardet

    Narrated by Juliet Mills and Jayne Entwistle

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    About this audiobook

    Spanning the sweep of the 20th century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.

    One woman. One little girl. The war that changed everything.

    December 1940. 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 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?

    In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and The Nightingale, here is a novel about courage and kindness, hardship and friendship, and the astonishing power of love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 26, 2019
    ISBN9781984839800
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    We Must Be Brave
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    Frances Liardet

    Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford before traveling to Cairo to work as a translator. She currently lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and daughter, and runs a summer writing session called Bootcamp. We Must Be Brave is her second novel.

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      Meandering story with lackluster characters. Pointless ending. Not worth it.