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A heartbreaking story of love and loss, based on a true story
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
OVER 30 WEEKS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER LIST’S TOP TEN
WINNER OF GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2017 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD
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Memphis, Tennessee, 1939
Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their circle of relatives’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father will have to rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge, until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that may be familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they’re going to soon be returned to their parents – but they quickly realize the dark truth…
Aiken, South Carolina, present day
Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a possibility encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her circle of relatives’s long-hidden history, on a path so we can in the end lead either to devastation or to redemption.
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‘It is unattainable not to get swept up in this near-perfect novel’ Huffington Post
Based on one of The united states’s most notorious real-life scandals, in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families everywhere the country, Before We Were Yours is a riveting, wrenching and in the end uplifting global bestseller.
‘A tale of enduring power’ Paula McLain
