**For fans of Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly's *Lilac Girls* โ the bestselling author of *The Piano Maker* returns with a vivid, atmospheric, and deeply moving novel set during the final months of the Second World War.** **NATIONAL BESTSELLER** London, 1944/45: Kate Henderson is an energe
The Orphan Girl : A WWII Novel of Courage Found and a Promise Kept
โ Scribed by Kurt Palka
- Book ID
- 112051391
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 414 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780771072543
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โฆ Synopsis
For fans of Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls โ the bestselling author of The Piano Maker returns with a vivid, atmospheric, and deeply moving novel set during the final months of WWII.
London, 1944/45
Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved.
Kate's life is interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of the air raid alarm and the terror whistles of a bomb's stabilizers screaming toward the roof of her house. Kate survives, but she is injured.
Her house is gone as well, and after her time in the hospital, Claire Giroux, a kind doctor and family...
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