Often, abused children can’t get over the abuse and believe, at least on some level, that since their mother treated them that way, they must deserve it. Well, it doesn’t work that way - in the novel or in real life. The reader might question why Ada doesn’t just accept that her mother was a horrible, cruel person and be grateful for her new loving guardian. She’s suffered much, but to an uninformed reader, she often appears to be sullen and ungrateful. Bradley does an incredible job creating a character who realistically represents how an abused child might react.Īda is at times a difficult character to like. An important part of Ada’s struggle is to learn that she’s worthy of love. The story is filled with details about life in the British countryside during WWII, but it’s also the story of Ada’s struggle to learn about the world around her. Maggie, her daughter and Ada’s best friend, stays with them on holiday from her boarding school When the British government decides they want to use Thorton House for the war effort, Lady Thorton moves in with the small family. Lord and Lady Thorton generously give Susan and the children the use of a cottage on their grounds.
Ruth’s father works with Lord Thorton on a secret project and her mother is in an internment camp (because she is German), and Ruth, who is applying to Oxford, comes to stay with them so that Susan can tutor her in maths (as they say it in Great Britain).
The rest of their family refused to leave with them. Ruth and her family are refugees from Germany, Jews who managed to escape Germany and flee to England. The story builds on the characters from the first story with the addition of one important character, Ruth. Butter, Ada’s beloved pony, survived the bombing. Susan’s house had been destroyed by a bomb, but the destruction occurred when she had traveled to London to bring Ada and her brother Jamie back to live with her, so they all were saved. At the end of the first book, Ada and her brother have returned to Kent with Susan, the person who has cared for them and loved them since they went to stay with her as evacuees from London and the Nazis’ bombs.
Ada is just about to have surgery to correct her clubfoot. This novel continues where the first one ends. That story has enthralled readers and made tens of thousands of them weep. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley accomplished this difficult feat with “The War I Finally Won,” the sequel to “ The War that Saved My Life.”Īda is the main character in both books, and it’s her story, that of a child who has endured unimaginable abuse and cruelty, who has struggled through life with a disability, yet who emerges strong and brave. It’s rare when a sequel is just as beautifully written and just as touching (maybe even more so) than the first book.
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