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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
by Patti Callahan Henry
A beautiful fantastical coming-of-age historical fiction, for fans of Narnia and fairy tales.
Hazel, 14, and Flora, 5, are evacuated from London in Operation Pied Piper to a rural village in 1939 to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Hazel spends her days entertaining her young sister with walks and games, specifically a fairy tale about a magical land, Whisperwood, a secret location they can escape to that is all their own. They live a seemingly idyllic existence juxtaposed to the bombing of London in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames with a kind benefactress and her son.
But when young Flora mysteriously disappears while playing near the riverbanks, the unthinkable occurs. Flora disappears, is presumed drowned by many, and is added to the list of children who had been lost during the evacuation operation.
20 years later, while working at a specialty bookshop filled with first editions and other literary novelties, Hazel opens a package containing the picture book Whisperwood and the River of Stars, the fairy tale that was unique to her and Flora alone. Following the clues this package brings, Hazel is on a quest to find out what happened to her sister all those years ago.
Hazel, 14, and Flora, 5, are evacuated from London in Operation Pied Piper to a rural village in 1939 to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Hazel spends her days entertaining her young sister with walks and games, specifically a fairy tale about a magical land, Whisperwood, a secret location they can escape to that is all their own. They live a seemingly idyllic existence juxtaposed to the bombing of London in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames with a kind benefactress and her son.
But when young Flora mysteriously disappears while playing near the riverbanks, the unthinkable occurs. Flora disappears, is presumed drowned by many, and is added to the list of children who had been lost during the evacuation operation.
20 years later, while working at a specialty bookshop filled with first editions and other literary novelties, Hazel opens a package containing the picture book Whisperwood and the River of Stars, the fairy tale that was unique to her and Flora alone. Following the clues this package brings, Hazel is on a quest to find out what happened to her sister all those years ago.