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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
London, 1944/45: Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father’s murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved.
Kate’s life is interrupted once more when she wakes up one night to the sound of the air raid alarm and the terror whistles of a bomb’s stabilizers screaming toward the roof of her house. Kate survives, but she is injured.
Her house is gone as well, and after her time in the hospital, Claire Giroux, a kind doctor and family friend, invites Kate to live with her as she recuperates. This arrangement works well for them until a few months later when Claire’s husband comes home from the war. Within days the lives of both women are drastically altered, and events are set in motion, both in England and in Canada, that challenge Kate and Claire to their limits.
The Orphan Girl is a moving and powerful story about friendship and courage, and about promises made and kept.
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Release date
July 26, 2022 -
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- ISBN: 9780771072543
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- ISBN: 9780771072543
- File size: 976 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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June 1, 2022
Palka (The Piano Maker, 2015) combines romance and British homefront drama in this tale of Kate Henderson, who is orphaned after her intelligence-officer father is murdered in 1939 and her mother dies in a random bombing late in the war that also injures Kate. She is befriended by her father's Cambridge friend, David, also harboring secrets, who instructs her to burn his papers should he disappear. Claire, a doctor at the hospital where Kate is treated for her wounds, offers Kate a place to live, and she gradually puts her life back together, working in a factory until she can resume doing what she loves: driving an ambulance and tending horses at a suburban farm. Meanwhile, she falls in love with a young man who is in flight school. Palka juggles Kate's story with that of Claire, whose husband returns from the war even more violent than he was early in their always-troubled relationship. There is a little too much plot here--a side trip to Canada seems unnecessary--but the core story of two single women dealing with WWII and its aftermath is well detailed and affecting.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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