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02579aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 A20367A4BCF511EAA1925DFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20200703012203 008 200226s2020 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1838882529 020 $a 9781838882525 040 $a NZAUC $b eng $e rda $c NZAUC $d SILO 100 1 $a Kelman, Suzanne, $e author. 245 10 $a When we were brave / $c Suzanne Kelman. 264 1 $a London : $b Bookouture, $c 2020. 300 $a 318 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a "The face of the woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment, even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her... 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years. Present day, London: When Sophie discovers a photograph of her great aunt Vivi from World War Two, it throws her into a world of confusion. Because, as she learns about this secret relative, she quickly realises that the photograph doesn't fit with her family's story. It shows Vivi leaving an address associated with a spy network in London - a place she had no reason to be - and it is dated right before she disappeared. Meanwhile Sophie's own life feels as blasted and bombed as the blitzed city in the photograph she's looking at. Her beautiful daughter - as full of joy and wild energy as Vivi had apparently once been - is gone; and Sophie's heart has been left broken into pieces. Retreating to the family home in rural Cornwall to seek solace from her pain and the feelings of guilt that she could have done more to protect her daughter, Sophie finds herself becoming obsessed with Vivi's life. But nothing can prepare Sophie for what she is about to uncover - the story of a woman who risked everything for the person she loved the most; and a secret family history that could be the key to Sophie's own future."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Aunts $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Underground movements $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Cornwall (England : County) $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518024139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A20367A4BCF511EAA1925DFC96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search