![]() ![]() At some point all those remembered images, along with many others, came together for me in a vibrant and interesting fictional landscape, waiting to be peopled. A man chopping wood in the distance, the axe falling silently, and then the sound of the blow coming a second later through cold winter air. The sunlight in a doorway, with a flagstoned path outside. The smell of an old-fashioned stone pantry, such as the one my grandmother had, where she kept stewed apples in a china bowl. when they are reunited decades later, Ellen and Pamela find that their love is as fierce and elemental as it was they day they parted. Ellen tells us a story of loss, but this terrible loss, but it’s actually a story of love. Can you tell us a bit more about the book?Ī motherless child – Pamela – and a childless young woman – Ellen – are thrown together at the beginning of the war, only to are torn apart again at the war’s end. ![]() ![]() Read our full review of We Must Be Brave here Your new book We Must be Brave is a story of courage and kindness, hardship and friendship. Her first novel, The Game, won a Betty Trask award. She currently lives in Somerset with her husband and daughter, and runs a summer writing session called Bootcamp. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford before travelling to Cairo to work as a translator. Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. ![]()
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