When We Were Young & Brave
β Scribed by Hazel Gaynor
- Book ID
- 100461486
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062995278
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β¦ Synopsis
"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us."-- Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . .
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japan****ese Army's internment of teachers and children from a British-run missionary school.
China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge.
Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always...
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