- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Evacuation of civilians, World War, 1939-1945
It started with a letter. A letter that had been lost for a long time, waiting out half a century, stifling summer after cooling winter, in a forgotten postal bag in the dim attic of a nondescript house in Bermondsey.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and effortless.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Morton
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 531
- Publisher
- Center Point Pub., Atria Books, Windsor
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509813278
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