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We That Are Left

✍ Scribed by Clark, Clare

Book ID
108934218
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780544129993

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✦ Synopsis

The captivating story of two sisters born into privilege, forced to make their way in a world turned upside down by war, and the man who, against all expectation, transforms them both
It is 1910. Jessica and Phyllis Melville have grown up at Ellinghurst, their family estate. A headstrong beauty, Jessica longs for London -- the glitter and glamor of debutante life -- while bookish Phyllis dreams in vain of attending the university. Neither girl questions that it is Theo, their adored brother, whom their mother loves best. Theo eclipses everyone around him, including diffident Oskar Grunewald -- a prodigy in the rapidly evolving fields of math and physics -- who with his mother is a frequent visitor to Ellinghurst. Fascinated by the house but alternately tormented and ignored by the Melville children, Oskar seeks refuge in Ellinghurst's enormous library.

Over the next decade, as the Great War devastates and reshapes their world, the sisters...

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