She lives in the county of Somerset, UK, with her husband and daughter. Readers will be captivated by Ellen’s story, which is bolstered by a swift plot and characters who realistically and memorably grow. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. Ellen glimpses similarities between Pamela and Penny, and they form a life-changing friendship. In small-town Massachusetts in 1959, foster parents Louie Moscatelli, a gruff mechanic, and his reclusive wife Dahlia accept emergency placement of six-year-old Agnes Juniper after she was abused in her previous foster home. Over 30 years later, Ellen befriends Penny Lacey, a lonely young boarding school student in Upton. Francis ( The Orphans at Race Point) traces the heartbreaking pains of a foster family in this beautifully drawn saga. Though distraught by Pamela’s departure, Ellen survives the devastation around her with the love and support of Selwyn, her childhood friend Lucy Horne, and other villagers who have been a constant presence in Ellen’s life. Ellen treats Pamela as the daughter she never had (Selwyn is impotent) for the next few years, until Pamela is eight and a relative of Pamela’s finds her and takes her to live with family members. In 1940, while helping evacuees of a nearby bombing who have arrived at Upton by bus, Ellen meets Pamela Pickering, a young child left alone on the bus. Ellen Parr is married to Selwyn, owner of the local mill in the village of Upton, near Southampton. Frances Liardet is a child of children of the Second World War. British author and translator Liardet’s moving American debut, set in WWII England, follows a childless woman discovering joy after she begins caring for a young girl.
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