From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved … but at what cost?This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of Orphan Train and The Secret WifeAs the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer\'s daughter, Elenor Cardew.Įlenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for themselves away from harm. "An emotional roller coaster.I felt Pia's strength, courage, guilt, and grief come through the pages clear as day.Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. "An emotional roller coaster.I felt Pia's strength, courage, guilt, and grief come through the pages clear as day." "Reading the novel in the time of COVID-19 adds an even greater resonance, and horror, to the description of the fatal spread of that 1918 flu." "Wiseman's depiction of the horrifying spread of the Spanish flu is eerily reminiscent of the present day and resonates with realistic depictions of suffering, particularly among the poorer immigrant population." The Historical Novels Review, EDITOR'S CHOICE Well-researched and impossible to put down, this is an emotional tug-of-war played out brilliantly on the pages and in readers' hearts." "Wiseman's writing is superb, and her descriptions of life during the Spanish Flu epidemic are chilling. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, The Orphan Collector is a story of love, resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most.
As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her own shame and fear, risking everything to see justice – and love – triumph at last. Vincent's Orphan Asylum – the first step in a long and arduous journey. Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they're at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans."
As the flu takes hold, she sees quarantine signs and funeral crepe on the doors of her neighbors. Pia Lange is a thirteen-year-old German girl living in the overcrowded slums of Philidelphia. Watching Pia leave her brothers alone, Bernice makes a shocking, life-altering decision. Written byZLIBS Editors New York Times bestseller The Orphan Collector is set in fall 1918 as the Spanish Influence spreads through the United States. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind.īernice Groves has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling author of America's First Daughter "An immersive historical tale with chilling twists and turns. Wiseman has written a touching tale of loss, survival, and perseverance with some light fantastical elements.
"Readers will not be able to help making comparisons to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how little has changed since 1918. From the internationally bestselling author of What She Left Behind comes a gripping and powerful tale of upheaval-a heartbreaking saga of resilience and hope perfect for fans of Beatriz Williams and Kristin Hannah-set in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak-the deadly pandemic that went on to infect one-third of the world's population.
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