Before We Were Yours: A Novel
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Before We Were Yours is a 2022 paperback novel by Ballantine Books, highly rated with 4.7 stars from over 16,000 readers. Ranked in the top 1,500 in Women's Fiction, it offers a compelling historical narrative that resonates with a wide audience.
Specifications
| Dimensions | 10.7 x 2.8 x 19.1 cm |
| Isbn 10 | 0593599004 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0593599006 |
| Item Weight | 1.05 Kilograms |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 480 pages |
| Publication Date | 29 November 2022 |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Reviews
User
Tedious, boring writing.
Gave up after 3 chapters
User
Not what I expected
Never like the way it’s written.
User
Heartbreakingly beautiful
After such a long time, I have come across a book I couldn’t put down! And it is so beautifully written and heartbreaking, to imagine the horror of the situation and the children’s plight. This is a book that’ll shake you, but also make you fall in love with it, with each of the carefully drawn characters. One of my best reads in what I feel has been ages!
User
Fantastic book!!
"Before We Were Yours" by Lisa Wingate is just a marvelous book, which pulls you into it's story immediately and doesn't let you go until you've finished it! I just couldn't put it down! The story is told by going back and forth from the past and the present until they meet in the present.. Also, just thinking that the book is based on true facts, even though the actual story in the book is fictional, makes the reading even more interesting.. The author put together many true testimonials in order to write this book.. It's just great reading! What a story!! What an adventure! It certainly holds your attention, and plays with your emotions.. I highly recommend it!
User
Fantastic book
Fantastic novel! I couldn’t stop reading. The story followed me after I’ve finished the book. That shows me how good it was for me.
User
Interesting
Very good
User
An interesting novel based on a true story of child trafficking in the Fifties
I read this for a book club meeting. The author did a great job of knitting together two female heroines in two different time periods. The settings she used, the Mississippi River shantyboat near Memphis 1939 and the present day low country of South Carolina were excellent. The description of the real life Tennessee Children’s Home Society Orphanage and Georgia Tann were horrifying. The theme of man against man when it’s children for profit is bone chilling. I wish she hadn’t spent so much time setting up the story. I was anxious to get on with it. I wish she had written about where the other children had gone and how they reconnected with each other. She could have elaborated more on the love story. . It was a good ending though and she tied up loose ends well. I enjoyed it and learned something I didn’t know. Nowadays we have DNA to help people reconnect and surrogacy so these problems are a thing of the past hopefully.
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