SuitabookLove under political upheaval
Esteya and Skizi are drawn together while war approaches and Esteya’s brother is connected to the Revolutionary Communist Party.
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B. R. Collins - Author
A wartime story about first love, separation and survival. Esteya and Skizi’s relationship sits alongside political upheaval, family betrayal and the urgent need to escape and reunite.
Esteya is fifteen. As war rumbles closer, Esteya's brother - an important figure in the Revolutionary Communist Party - is able to protect their family from the worst of the privations of war. Then Esteya meets an extraordinary girl, Skizi, an outcast, shunned by all. But Esteya and Skizi are drawn to each other. Slowly and wonderfully love blossoms and then Esteya's family are betrayed and forcibly taken away. Skizi disappears. Esteya is left deserted, heartbroken and in terrible danger. But she must find a way to escape - and to find Skizi.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA wartime story about first love, separation and survival. Esteya and Skizi’s relationship sits alongside political upheaval, family betrayal and the urgent need to escape and reunite.
Esteya and Skizi are drawn together while war approaches and Esteya’s brother is connected to the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Skizi is an outcast who is shunned by all, yet Esteya is drawn to her.
Esteya’s brother’s importance protects the family from the worst privations, before the family are betrayed and forcibly taken away.
The book may warrant discussion around wartime deprivation, forced separation, bereavement-like heartbreak, danger, betrayal and the treatment of someone shunned by her community.
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