The Lost English Girl

The Lost English Girl

by Julia Kelly

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4.3 stars from 1,271 reviews. Top 87% of Romance books we track.


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Perfect for you if...

  • You love sweeping historical fiction that weaves real wartime events (like the evacuation of British children) into intimate family drama.
  • You're drawn to stories about mothers making impossible choices and the lasting consequences of those decisions.
  • You enjoy multi-timeline narratives that gradually reveal why characters made the choices they did.

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  • You prefer fast-paced plots with minimal downtime; this one lingers on emotional aftermath and family complexity.
  • You want straightforward happy endings; this book deals seriously with grief, displacement, and incomplete reconciliation.
  • You're looking for lighter historical fiction without heavy themes of class conflict, religious prejudice, and wartime loss.

About this book

This epic saga set against World War II explores love, motherhood, and betrayal. In Liverpool, 1935, Viv Byrne, raised in a strict Catholic family, becomes pregnant after a relationship with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man aspiring to be a jazz musician. They marry, but Joshua makes a life-changing decision on their wedding day that forces Viv back into her disapproving family's care. Five years later, as World War II approaches, Viv faces an impossible choice: evacuating her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside for safety. Meanwhile, Joshua, now in New York City, abandons his struggling music career to serve in the Royal Air Force, struggling with feelings about the family he left behind. When tragedy strikes and Viv discovers the countryside refuge wasn't safe from war's horrors, years pass before Joshua helps her uncover the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to reunite their family. The novel tells the story of England's evacuated children during this period.

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Currently 4.3★ from 1,271 reviews

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