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    "description": "The tear-jerking wartime tale of an orphaned baby who needs a home, and the woman who risks everything to provide it. Fans of Before We Were Yours, Wives of War and Diney Costelo will be utterly swept away by this heartbreaking \u2013 yet beautifully hopeful \u2013 World War Two page-turner.\n\nEngland, 1941: Life has always been cruel to Ethel. Raised in an orphanage by a merciless mistress, she never knew the meaning of love. And now she has fallen for the one man she who is forbidden to her \u2013 Karl, a German held captive in the local prisoner of war camp. He might be the enemy, but he has her heart.\n\nWhen Ethel discovers she\u2019s pregnant, she is labelled a traitor and shunned by all. The love of her life is torn away from her, but she vows to protect their precious daughter. She gives birth as bombs rain down, to the sound of ear-splitting shrieks and explosions in the distance. But then the planes fly over the house, and the unthinkable happens\u2026\n\nA baby girl lies in the rubble, surrounded by broken glass and crumbled brick. The odds are against her, until a woman, Lily, picks up the child from the wreckage. Will she be saved from her mother\u2019s fate or will she forever be a helpless orphan?",
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