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LocationOakland
Call NoF KEL
TitleThe lost English girl / Julia Kelly.
AuthorKelly, Julia, 1986- author.
Barcode528170
CollectionFiction
Summary"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family. Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside estate of the affluent Thompson family. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force, fight for his country, and try to piece together his feelings about the family, wife, and daughter he left behind at eighteen. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua's help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again. Telling the harrowing story of England's many evacuated children, bestselling author Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl explores how one simple choice can change the course of a life, and what we are willing to forgive to find a way back to the ones we love and thought lost"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781982171704 : $28.99
International Standard Book Number 1982171707 : $28.99
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20221019
Personal Name Kelly, Julia, 1986- author.
Title Statement The lost English girl / Julia Kelly.
Edition Statement First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Gallery Books, 2023.
Physical Description 404 p. Hardcover 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family. Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside estate of the affluent Thompson family. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force, fight for his country, and try to piece together his feelings about the family, wife, and daughter he left behind at eighteen. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua's help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again. Telling the harrowing story of England's many evacuated children, bestselling author Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl explores how one simple choice can change the course of a life, and what we are willing to forgive to find a way back to the ones we love and thought lost"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. England
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Evacuation of civilians
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Children
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Historical fiction. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Liverpool (England) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft
Additional Physical Form Entry Online version: Kelly, Julia, 1986- First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2023 Lost English girl (DLC) 2022046197 9781982171728