22 Britannia Road (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Silvana Nowak: Mother, wife; housekeeper or housewife?
• Janusz Nowak: A Polish man who left his wife to fight Hitler. Six years later, he hoped to keep his family together in England.
• Aurek Nowak: The son of Jan and Silvanna. Kind of an odd boy. Clinging to his mother.
• Peter: Son of Tony, fat, the first friend Aurek made.
• Tony Benetoni: Peter's father, a friend of neighbors.
• Doris: A neighbor in England.
• Gilbert: Doris's husband. A neighbor.
• Bruno: Polish. A soldier. Janusz's friend
• Franek: Young, unusual, traveled with Bruno
• Helene: A woman in France.
• Gregor: A polish doctor.
• Moira: Add a description of this character.
• Marysia
• Ambrose
• Olga
• Elsa
• Geena

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• “For a place so full of complications, it appeared serene, and she wondered if all houses were capable of presenting such a good facade, looking so foursquare and right while their insides were full of banging doors and raised voices.”

  Silvana Dobrowski

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• They will travel on, into the arms of men and women and children who have arrived at the end of the war with nothing but the curious realization that they have survived something and a dull sense that they might not survive the beginning of something else.

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• “Aurek’s not my son,” she breathes. “My son is dead. I left him and he died.”

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• “Maybe it doesn’t matter,” she says when he falters and loses his place in his own narrative. “The past—maybe we make too much of it. What we need is what’s right here.”

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• “Loneliness is a disease anybody can catch. When your grandfather died in the war against the Bolsheviks, your grandmother caught the disease. She died of it when I was just a boy.”

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• He clasped his head in his hands, aware of the fragility of flesh and blood, the easy way people were killed and blown apart by guns and bombs and terribly afraid that he, on the other hand, was condemned to live through it all.

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• And how was it that love and loss were so close together? Because no matter how she loved the boy—and she did, furiously, as if her own life depended on him—loss was always there, following at her heels.

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• All the dark hearts of the lost, the found, and the never forgotten lived in his child’s body, in his quick eyes. She loved him with the same unforgiving force that pushes forests from the deep ground, but still she feared it was not enough to keep him.

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• “You can be lonely in the biggest crowd,”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Ipswich: In England, where Janucz and Silvana settled after the war
• Warsaw: In Poland, where Janucz and Silvan met, were married and started their lives before the war.
• Poland: Taken over by the Russians and the Germans during WW2
• England: Emerged victorious when WW2 ended
• Britannia Road: The road Silvana's and Janucz's home was on
• Felixstowe: On the ocean, where Tony's seaside home was located.
• Marseilles: Where Janucz and Helene met, in France

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Amanda Hodgkinson (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR6108.O33A615
• Dewey: 823.92

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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