The Storm Child
From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England.It's mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her husband discover an unknown girl in their hay barn about to give birth. After the young mother dies, Elsie takes the infant in and raises her as her own daughter, her precious storm child.Gina grows into a beautiful little girl, but her safe haven turns out to be anything but. Torn away from her home and family, the child finds herself in a nightmare from which there's no waking, but despite her misery and bewilderment, Gina's determined to survive.Years pass. With womanhood comes the Second World War, along with more heartbreak, grief and betrayal. Then, a new but dangerous love beckons; can Gina ever escape the dark legacy of the storm child?
496 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2020 by Macmillan · ISBN 9781509898114
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- The Storm Child · Macmillan · 2020 · ISBN 9781509898114 This page
- The Storm Child · Pan Books · 2020 · ISBN 9781509898121
- The Storm Child · Pan Macmillan UK · 2020 · ISBN 9781760983932
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