5/24/2023 0 Comments Frances liardet we must be brave![]() Nevertheless, as a testament to parental love and its relationship to the heartbreaking, healing, almost ungraspable passage of time, We Must Be Brave is a great success: richly observed, lovingly drawn and determinedly clear-eyed to the last. Also a little unevenly handled is the movement of the characters through time. We Must Be Brave By Frances Liardet paperback29 January 2019 29.99 or 4 payments of 7.50 with Learn more ADD TO CART Booklovers earn 1.45 in rewards Online In Store SHIPS IN 5-14 DAYS Get estimated delivery dates THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage. the 30s and 40s are brilliantly evoked, as is the present century, but the period in between feels temporally unclear. ![]() ![]() It’s rare to find a novel in which everyday items are so carefully and luminously rendered, and the effect is powerful. ![]() Liardet is a masterful observer of the telling minutiae of life. She’s also good on the changes time wreaks in childhood, both on the child, who alters from one month to the next, and on the parent. Liardet describes beautifully the almost animal quality of that feeling, called up by the smell of a child’s neck, the curve of a chubby arm, even an outgrown dress. ![]() This is a book suffused with parental affection: fierce, physical and almost inexpressibly tender. as well as being a deft social history, it is a love story. The writing is often dazzling.and this.lifts what might have been a sentimental story into different territory altogether. ![]()
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