**The acclaimed author of the "sweeping and beautifully written novel" (** Woman's World**)** The Light Over London**weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.** Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry
The Lost English Girl
β Scribed by Julia Kelly
- Book ID
- 111788500
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- EN-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781982171728
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β¦ Synopsis
The acclaimed author of the "sweeping and beautifully written novel" (Woman's World) The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.
Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside estate of the affluent Thompson family. In...
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