Böcker av Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Della can''t work out why her adored older sixteen-year-old sister Suki screams in her sleep. Suki has always been Della''s protector, especially after their mother went to prison and her boyfriend took the sisters in. But who has been protecting Suki? When Suki tries to kill herself, Della decides it''s time to tell their secrets and speak out about the terrible things that happened to Suki. Bound by love and trauma, these two sisters must find their own voices before they can find their way back to each other.

World War II continues, and Ada and her brother Jamie are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorton - now along with Lady Thorton herself and her daughter Maggie. Life in the crowded cottage is tense enough, and then, quite suddenly, Ruth, a Jewish girl from Germany, moves in. A German? The occupants of the house are horrified. But other impacts of war are far more intrusive and frightening. As death creeps closer to their door, life and morality during wartime grow more complex.

Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room flat. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada''s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn''t waste a minute - she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Miss Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take in the two children. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan - and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie.