{"product_id":"we-must-be-brave-paperback","title":"We Must Be Brave - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrances Liardet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage.\" --Delia Owens, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning World War II and the sweep of the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eWe Must Be Brave\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA woman. A war. The child who changed everything.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecember 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England during World War II, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEllen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband Selwyn had dreamed for themselves. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep. Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eWe Must Be Brave\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrances Liardet\u003c\/b\u003e is a child of children of the Second World War. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford, before traveling to Cairo to translate modern Egyptian novelists, including Naguib Mahfouz and Edwar al-Kharrat. Liardet currently lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and daughter, and helps to run a summer writing session called Bootcamp. \u003ci\u003eWe Must Be Brave\u003c\/i\u003e is her American debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688764215359,"sku":"9780735218871","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0300d125713296db4e6e15556fe023a2.webp?v=1764983102","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/we-must-be-brave-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}