The Lost English Girl

By: Julia Kelly

Narrated by: Danielle Cohen, Raphael Corkhill

Combining “fast-paced historical fiction with a hint of suspense” (Booklist), this epic saga from Julia Kelly explores love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.

Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.

Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force and try to piece together his feelings about the family he left behind. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn’t immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua’s help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again.

Telling the harrowing story of England’s many evacuated children, Kelly’s The Lost English Girl “will hook readers from the first page” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

happy ending with a ywist

this story was nothing I had expected.
nice surprise.
happy not guey!
ww2 had many fascets

Amazing! I finished it last week and can’t stop thinking about it g about it!

Can’t think of a thing! Really!my favorite book so far this year! I loved the other Julia Kelly book that I had the opportunity to read as well…. Called The Last Garden in England. I will purchase the hard copy for my library :)

Informative and intriguing.

Loved the story! It gave me insight challenges on the home front during the war. Those evacuees had to be especially courageous but I ached for the parents too.

So many perspectives

Deep characters woven together in a wonderful story - real people with a realistic life- generational- forgiveness and redemption

Original story line. Couldn’t put it down.

Loved the intrigue
Could not wait to find out what would happen next and if Maggie was alive. .