The Lost Orphans

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>London 1941. Help me Jack is Elsie's last thought as the building crashes down around her and everything goes dark. Will she ever see her big brother again?</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elsie</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> of everything except her older brother </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jack. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Evacuated together hand in hand they escaped a cruel farming family only to find their home destroyed their mother gone. Wide-eyed Elsie hasn't spoken since and every night she cries for her mother and for their father lost at war.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wandering under the falling ash their stomachs twist with hunger and Jack knows he cannot protect Elsie alone. But everything changes when they join a rag-tag band of orphans runaway evacuees who've returned to the city just like them. With nothing left to lose the children stay above ground as Nazi planes fly overhead determined to help others. But as </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>they risk their lives who will protect them? </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then during a night of terrible bombing the unimaginable happens. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Elsie disappears.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Their faces streaked with tears Jack and his friends search through the flames and smoke knowing she has no voice to respond to their cries. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will anyone find her before it's too late? And will the lost orphans ever find a safe home?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From the bestselling author of <em>The Ration Book Baby</em> comes a breath-taking heartbreaking and uplifting wartime novel inspired by a true story about runaway evacuees. Perfect for fans of <em>Orphan Train</em> <em>Sold on a Monday</em> and Diney Costeloe.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Read what everyone's saying about Ellie Curzon:</strong></p><p>'<strong>Wow wow wow!!!!</strong> I read this book in <strong>less than 24 hours</strong>. <strong>So gripping</strong> it had me <strong>hooked</strong> <strong>and unable to put it down</strong> until I finished the last page!!!... <strong>Love love loved</strong>.' <em>@DianeLikesToRead</em></p><p></p><p>'<strong>Wonderful</strong>... I <strong>took this one completely to my heart</strong> from the very beginning... You won't want to put down... <strong>Brought a tear to my eyes</strong>.' <em>@leona.omahony</em></p>