![]() ![]() Soon after Lady Thorton moves in, Lord Thorton arrives to tell the household that a 16-year-old German girl named Ruth will be moving in with them. ![]() Thorton House has been requisitioned by the government for the duration of the war. Lady Thorton comes to the cottage where Ada, Jamie, and Susan live and announces that she will be moving in with them. Ada is good friends with the Thortons’ daughter, Maggie, and Ada and Jamie both admire the Thortons’ son, Jonathan. After Ada’s recovery, she, Jamie, and Susan return to Kent and move into a cottage on the grounds of a large estate owned by local gentry, the Thortons. Ada worries that she and Jamie will be sent to an orphanage, but Susan reassures her that they remain living with her.Īfter weeks of healing, Ada recovers enough to wear shoes and walk, which brings her considerable joy. ![]() When she awakens after surgery, she learns that her mother (Mam) was killed in a bombing raid in London. Previously, she had an untreated clubfoot that made the sole of her foot face upward. The novel opens as Ada prepares for surgery to straighten her ankle. Ada and Jamie were evacuated from the London slums to the countryside at the start of World War II (1939), and Susan insisted on becoming their guardian after learning that their mother is abusive. ![]() Ada and Jamie live with a woman named Susan in a small village in Kent. Set in Britain from 1940 to 1943, The War I Finally Won recounts three years in the lives of 11-year-old Ada and her six-year-old brother Jamie. ![]()
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