For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis stormed Paris, reality feels more akin to fear.
With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire has few options. But her tumultuous upbringing—spent in the refuge of novels with fictional friends—has ill-prepared her for the daily dramas of raising children, or for the way David Campbell, a fellow American boarder, challenges her notions of love. Nor could she foresee how the tentacles of war will invade their quiet haven, threatening all who have come to call Bluebell Wood home and risking the only family she’s ever known.
Set in England’s lush and storied Lake District in the early days of World War II, and featuring cameos from beloved literary icons Beatrix Potter and C. S. Lewis, Until We Find Home is an unforgettable portrait of life on the British home front, challenging us to remember that bravery and family come in many forms.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Until We Find Home
Book Author: Cathy Gohlke
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"You must go with them, mademoiselle . . . . They cannot go without an escort . . . . .There is no one else and there will be no more trips."
American Claire Stewart finds herself in an impossible situation, instead of simply accompanying five Jewish children to the French coast and putting them into the capable hands of a responsible escort into England, she has been forced to make the trip herself when the contact doesn't show. Once on English soil, she digs deep within her family history to recollect an estranged aunt who might possibly provide her troupe with temporary lodging. After that? She determines to return to France where her future with a most beloved man is sure to satisfy.
Lady Miranda Langford is summarily shocked when her niece, whom she has never met, arrives on the doorstep of her Lake District estate with five weary, wet, bedraggled French children. What to do? The war has forced thousands of young refugees out of Nazi infested regions and she certainly has the means to help, but is her heart ready to be around children again?
It was a bit challenging at times to discern whose story took precedence in this book, the author wove bits and pieces of many lives into her tapestry, capitalizing on various popular figures that influenced the tide of public opinion in this time period, one of which was the famed C. S. Lewis, who expertly exposed Claire's fallacious fears, so that she could discover the One who could gift her with the miracle of unconditional love.
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