In 1945, just after World War II, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to…
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Fiction, coming of ageBrothers and sisters, fictionLondon (england), fictionFiction, historicalWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionAbandoned childrenBrothers and sistersFiction
The English Patient
