5/15/2023 0 Comments Frances liardet author![]() 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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