Before We Were Yours : The absolutely heartbreaking summer read of 2019

A heartbreaking story of affection and loss, based mostly on a real story

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2017 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION AWARD

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Memphis, Tennessee, 1939

Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her 4 youthful siblings stay a magical life aboard their household’s Mississippi River shantyboat. However when their father should rush their mom to the hospital one stormy night time, Rill is left in cost, till strangers arrive in power. Wrenched from all that’s acquainted and thrown right into a Tennessee Youngsters’s Residence Society orphanage, the Foss kids are assured that they’ll quickly be returned to their mother and father – however they shortly understand the darkish reality…

Aiken, South Carolina, current day

Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford appears to have all of it: a profitable profession, a good-looking fiance, and a lavish wedding ceremony on the horizon. However when Avery returns house to assist her father climate a well being disaster, an opportunity encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey by her household’s long-hidden historical past, on a path that may in the end lead both to devastation or to redemption.

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Primarily based on one in every of America’s most infamous real-life scandals, by which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption group, kidnapped and offered poor kids to rich households everywhere in the nation, Earlier than We Have been Yours is a riveting, wrenching and in the end uplifting international bestseller.

‘A story of putting up with energy’ Paula McLain

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