Frances Liardet
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
As German bombs fall on Southampton, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly-married Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband Selwyn...
2) Think of me
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2022
Description
James Acton has come to the village of Upton to begin again. As his grief over the death of his wife eases, he hopes to find new purpose as the vicar of this small, Hampshire parish, still emerging from the long shadow of the war. James's own war was in the Western Desert, where he fell in love, first with the thrill of being a hurricane pilot adn then with Yvette Haddad, the captivating, enigmatic young Alexandrian with a penchant for dangerous driving....