Una sorprendente y extraordinaria historia real: la de la lucha por la supervivencia de un grupo de niños en un campo de concentración durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta narración autobiográfica protagonizada por Hetty Verolme, una heroína adolescente, revela cómo ella y sus hermanos superaron
Hettie of Hope Street
✍ Scribed by Annie Groves
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007392079
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✦ Synopsis
A breathtaking tale set in 1920s Liverpool and London of one girl's determination to trace her roots, find true love and succeed in a world where obstacles lurk around every corner. Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home and treated as one of the family. But she has never felt she truly belonged. Hettie has a special gift ? a beautiful singing voice ? and on the cusp of womanhood, she makes a choice that will alter the course of her life. Amid the bright lights of Liverpool, she will follow her dreams. But once there, the only way to survive is working in the kitchens of a restaurant. Until, by chance, she is heard singing by the owner? Whisked to London, Hettie is thrown into a theatrical and colourful world but one with a dark side, its young inhabitants haunted by the horror of the First World War, and stalked by the fear of the Depression to come. Then tragedy strikes, and Hettie must decide between her heart and her head, her duty...
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