What was promised

Tobias Hill

Original title: What Was Promised

earliest edition we have, 2015 Bloomsbury, 2015

Charnwood

Post-war London: Children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find that the Mother Country is not at all what it was promised to be; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of their...

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What was promised edition · 2015 · Bloomsbury · 9781408840924
What was promised edition · 2015 · F.A. Thorpe · 464 pages · 9781444824902
What Was Promised paperback · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 9781408850961

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