![]() ![]() In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. As German bombs fall on Southampton, the city’s residents flee to the surrounding villages. ![]() ‘Whose is this child?’ I called.ĭecember, 1940. The last few passengers were shuffling away from me down the aisle to the doors. She was fast asleep on the back seat of the bus. Spanning the sweep of the 20th century, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue and the ways in which they rescue us back. A woman a war a child that changed everything. ![]()
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