A sweeping, heartfelt novel about what it means to truly love a child." - Jillian Cantor, author of The Lost Letter and In Another Time, "Be prepared to surrender-to Liardet's gorgeous prose, her haunting storyline, and the question that will lodge in your heart long after you've finished: What would I have done? For anyone who has ever loved a child, this stirring debut will work its way indelibly into the folds of your memory, and of your heart."-Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones "Vividly portrayed.Liardet reminds us that mother-daughter love can arise from thrown-together hearts during the cruelest rubble of war.
"We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet is a beautifully written story that explores love, loss, resilience, and the bonds of motherhood over the course of the 20th century. Ellen is no stranger to sorrow, but when she returns to the quiet village life she's long lived, she finds herself asking: In a world changed by war, is it fair to wish for an unchanged heart? In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and The Nightingale, here is a novel about courage and kindness, hardship and friendship, and the astonishing power of love. Then one day Pamela is taken away, screaming. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. "This stirring debut will work its way indelibly into your heart." -Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones A woman. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure.
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