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Before we were yours / Lisa Wingate.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF WING	Adult Fiction		Riverwood .	. On Loan .	5 May 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781787473102 (paperback)
Name	Wingate, Lisa author.
Title	Before we were yours / Lisa Wingate.
Published	London : Quercus Editions, Ltd, 2018.
Published	©2017
Description	469 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Includes reading group questions.
Notes	"They were taken away, but never forgotten..." --Front cover.
Summary	"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shanty boat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. Senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger leaves her deeply shaken. Avery's decision to learn more about the woman's life will take her on a journey through her family's long-hidden history"-- Back cover.
Subjects	Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
Subjects	Orphanages -- Fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Genre	Historical fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Brothers and sisters -- Fiction . Domestic fiction . Historical fiction . Orphanages -- Fiction . Authors: Wingate, Lisa .