β Jill Barnett
π Fiction
π
2011
π English
β 167 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Wonderful
β Scribed by Saskia Sarginson
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250083508
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction
It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you'd rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying a little more from anxiety each day. And especially if being five minutes older means you have to protect your fragile twin brother.
Still, Hedy Delaney loves her family, and she's trying to make the best of her new life on a U.S. airbase in England. After all, her dad's a war hero, her mother's a beauty, and her brother's a brainiac who writes moving stories about space travel.
Then one tragic day, the unforeseen occurs and all three are ripped away, leaving Hedy alone with countless questions. What really happened on the airbase? What went on behind military closed doors? What were the secrets that could never be told? And how could any of it have led to her family's destruction?
In her...
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