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We Must Be Brave

As German bombs fall on Southampton, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. When an unaccompanied child arrives in Upton, local woman Ellen volunteers to take her in until she can be reunited with her parents, but as the war progresses, the days turn to years. Slightly off-mint.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Year: 2019
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 432pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 215x133mm
  • ISBN: 9780008280130
  • Condition: New - Very Good
  • Weight: 0.5kg
Product code:
513204
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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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