{"product_id":"when-we-were-young-brave-a-novel","title":"When We Were Young \u0026 Brave: A Novel","description":"\"Gaynor's story of courage and\nstrength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us.\" —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours\n\nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during\nWWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of\nteachers and children from a British-run missionary school.\nTheir motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war.\nChina,\nDecember 1941. Having left an unhappy\nlife in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth\nKent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares\nto leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth,\nand those in her charge.\n\nTen-year-old Nancy Plummer has\nalways felt safe at Chefoo School,\nprotected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese\nforces take control of the school and the\nsecurity and\ncomforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and\nfear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to Miss\nKent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and\nsafety.\n\nFaced\nwith the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and\nfriendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are\nsent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger\nawait . . .\n\nInspired by true\nevents, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and\nunimaginable hardship, and the life-changing bonds formed between a young girl\nand her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 006299526X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.006299526X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gaynor, Hazel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52528959455519,"sku":"PKV.006299526X.G","price":2.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/006299526X-0.jpg?v=1778347701","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/when-we-were-young-brave-a-novel","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}