The Oceans Between Us: A gripping and heartwrenching novel of a mother's search for her lost child after WW2, perfect for fans of Ten Pound Poms

by Gill Thompson (Author)

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  Paperback
  2019

  $3.16

  A riveting story of one woman's quest to find her son, and a little boy's fight for survival. Inspired by real events, this magnificently moving novel shows the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
  
  For readers of Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly, The Letter by Kathryn Hughes, and Remember Me by Lesley Pearse.

  An injured woman is found wandering in London after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who she is. Only that she has lost something very precious.

  As a little boy waits in the orphanage, he hopes his mother will return. But then he finds himself on board a ship bound for Australia, the promise of a golden life ahead, and wonders: how will she find him in a land across the oceans?

  Under the Perth sun a lonely wife longs for a baby. When the English boy comes to live with her and her husband, she sees in him the son she was never able to have. But then she discovers the secret of his past. Should she keep quiet? Or tell the truth and risk losing the child who has become her life?