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With Blood and Scars
With Blood and Scars
With Blood and Scars
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Time is running out for Ania. Not long ago, when she watched a documentary about World War Two, blurred images began to haunt her. Now, she has to force her dying father to revisit his childhood in 1944 in Warsaw, a time when decisions were made on the spur of the moment, a place where chaos undermined all previous morality. Who is her father really? Can she bear to find out? Will her life unravel if she learns the truth?
Another secret from childhood also torments her: an terrifying incident she filed in her memory store in 1966. The police have found the remains of a child in Whalley Range. Should she contact her gang of friends from her own childhood days? Will they persuade her to reveal what happened then? Or should she continue to keep that secret forever?
Through the eyes of the spirited young Ania and friends, B. E. Andre explores with multi-layered humour and irascibility the incomprehensible attitudes of adults towards their World War Two past. With the prism of maturity, she grows to understand and appreciate the facts.
This heart-wrenching coming-of-age novel is a gripping tale of survival against all odds: a life-affirming immigrant story of tenacity, hope and courage.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherB.E. Andre
Release dateJun 1, 2015
ISBN9780993147210
With Blood and Scars
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B.E. Andre

B. E. Andre was born in Manchester, England, the child of Polish post-war refugee parents. She was educated at Stretford Grammar and Loreto College, read French, German and Swedish at U. C. W. Aberystwyth, and then completed further post-graduate studies in Manchester. This was eventually followed by an M. A. in Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. She worked for Reuters News Agency in London where she specialized in the oil market.She is the proud mother of three grown-up sons who left home when they were supposed to. She lives in Northwich, Cheshire. Among her many interests is the study of wood cabins and garden sheds, and she is on permanent look-out for the ideal writer's retreat in the Mazury region of Poland.

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