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Barcode30000003002338
Circ StatusAvailable
LibraryAliquippa
TitleThe lost English girl / Julia Kelly.
AuthorKelly, Julia, 1986- author.
Call NoFic Kelly
CollectionFiction
Reserve Item

Copies

Call NoDownloadURLHTMLCirc StatusLibraryCollectionShelf LocationPeriodical IssueVolumeBarcodePub Year
Fic Kelly AvailableAliquippaFiction   300000030023382023
Fic Kelly AvailableNew BrightonFiction   388880023395252023

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781982171704
International Standard Book Number 9781982171728
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6
Personal Name Kelly, Julia, 1986- author.
Title Statement The lost English girl / Julia Kelly.
Edition Statement First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Imprint New York : Gallery Books, 2023.
Physical Description 1 online resource
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 Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Children Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Evacuation of civilians Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Liverpool (England) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.