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The Welsh girl

by Peter Ho Davies

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At the height of World War II, an unexpected and forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, who works in a local pub, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German soldier at a nearby POW camp, who questions what he has been fighting for.

Prisoners of warYoung womenWorld War, 1939-1945Fiction