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The Sun’s Companion

Author(s): Kathleen Jones

Location(s): Cumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Shields

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1930s

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It’s 1935. Tamar Fell has no family – or so she’s been told – and she relies on the friends she makes as she’s dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother – the reckless, beautiful Sadie. Then Tamar meets Anna Weissmann, exiled from her own family by European politics, and they forge a friendship that will last through bereavement, failed love affairs, internment, betrayal, and the dislocations of war.

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