We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in.Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls the adults surge forward to choose and soon there is just one child left, a little girl sitting on the floor. She is thin as a string bean and her sleeve is ragged and damp like shes been chewing it. 1939. War has broken out hundreds of children are evacuated to the countryside to keep them safe from the bombs raining down on the cities. Wrenched from her family in the East End and sent more than a hundred miles away, sevenyearold Pearl Posner must adapt to a new life away from everything familiar. Viviennedidnt ask for an evacuee child. In fact, shes not sure her heart can take it.So many years, so many disappointments Vivis ability to feel love left her the day she learned the truth about her husband Edmund, and when she made the worst decision of her life and left her cherished sister to her fate. But like it or not, Pearl is here to stay, and what with the rumours about whats happening to children in mainland Europe, it might be the last safe place for her. As Pearl and Vivi learn how to live together, they discover that they have a connection that runs more deeply than they could ever have guessed from before Pearl was born, and deep into Viviennes past. And will it be Pearl the little girl who says so little and sees so much who forces Vivi to finally confront what happened in her marriage and to the longlost sister she loved so dearly and let fall so...

Binding: Paperback;358 pages; Publisher: StoryFire Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 471.53 g; Dimensions: N/A

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