While we weren't with you
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While we weren't with you
19.99 €
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"Everyone has a skeleton in their closet." This phrase becomes a reality for Avery, a successful businesswoman, the youngest daughter of the influential Senator Stafford, when she comes home from Washington because of her father's illness. The girl's life is planned down to the last detail, she is expected to have a serious political career, but at one of the events in a nursing home an old woman named May pulls an ancient bracelet off her hand... And with this bracelet, with the casual reservations of her grandmother Judy, Avery's journey into the distant past begins.
Many years ago on the Mississippi River in a houseboat lived a poor, friendly and cheerful family: mom, dad, Rill, her three sisters and a baby brother. Soon another addition was expected - and one stormy night, Rill's parents traveled upriver to the maternity hospital. The next morning, the police kidnapped the children right off the boat. And they became little prisoners in one of the orphanages of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and a costly commodity for its head, Miss Georgia Tann. The boys endure beatings, bullying, and a separation that could have been eternal. Empathizing with old Mae and trying to restore justice, Avery discovers his family's shameful secret. But tact, sincere affection for her parents and grandmother, and sudden love help the young woman to maintain harmony in her relationship with her relatives and hear "the melody of her life". Based on the real tragic events of the last century, the novel by American journalist and writer Lisa Wingate caused a huge resonance: it became a bestseller and was awarded several prestigious prizes.
Many years ago on the Mississippi River in a houseboat lived a poor, friendly and cheerful family: mom, dad, Rill, her three sisters and a baby brother. Soon another addition was expected - and one stormy night, Rill's parents traveled upriver to the maternity hospital. The next morning, the police kidnapped the children right off the boat. And they became little prisoners in one of the orphanages of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and a costly commodity for its head, Miss Georgia Tann. The boys endure beatings, bullying, and a separation that could have been eternal. Empathizing with old Mae and trying to restore justice, Avery discovers his family's shameful secret. But tact, sincere affection for her parents and grandmother, and sudden love help the young woman to maintain harmony in her relationship with her relatives and hear "the melody of her life". Based on the real tragic events of the last century, the novel by American journalist and writer Lisa Wingate caused a huge resonance: it became a bestseller and was awarded several prestigious prizes.
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