Strangers In Time By: David Baldacci || full length audiobook скачать в хорошем качестве

Strangers In Time By: David Baldacci || full length audiobook

Thirteen-year-old Thomas Finch has learned to survive on his own. Orphaned, hungry, and hardened by the streets of wartime London, he scavenges what he can and sleeps wherever he can find shelter. Too young to enlist, too old to be coddled, Thomas dreams of the day he can join the fight and make his life count for something—anything—more than mere survival. Fourteen-year-old Elsie Harrow returns to a city she barely recognizes. Having spent the last four years as an evacuee in rural Devon, she comes back to London only to find her childhood home reduced to rubble and her family gone. Grief-stricken and lost, she wanders through the ruins of a life that no longer exists. Their paths cross in the aftermath of a raid, when both take refuge inside a crumbling railway station. There, they are discovered by Edith Merriweather, a widowed schoolteacher who’s opened her modest home to displaced children. Despite her own sorrow and limited means, Edith offers them warmth, food, and something rarer still: hope. Inside Edith’s home—filled with battered books, homemade soup, and makeshift blackout curtains—Thomas and Elsie begin to rebuild themselves. But London is a city scarred by more than bombs. Thomas’s thievery has made him enemies, and Elsie’s return has stirred memories someone would rather forget. Meanwhile, Edith harbors a secret about her late husband’s connection to the Ministry—one that could put them all in danger. As air raid sirens wail and the war presses closer to their doorstep, Thomas, Elsie, and Edith must rely on one another. In the ashes of all they’ve lost, they discover something worth fighting for: family, forged not by blood, but by choice. __________________________________ © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © ╔═╦╗╔╦═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╦══╦═╗ ║╚╣║║║╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╬╗╔╣═╣ ╠╗║╚╝╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣║║║═╣ ╚═╩══╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝╚╝╚═╝