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A Calculated Life
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- Book Synopsis
- Born in abject poverty in the east end of London, Vanessa meets a German refugee in her first year at school. He encourages her love of mathematics, and they teach each other their languages.</p>Winning a scholarship to a grammar school a distance away, she goes to live with her foster parents who encourage her talents.</p>Leaving school, she uses her mathematical skills and her fluency in German to help with the war effort. At wars end she meets a pilot and after a weekend away she finds herself pregnant.</p>Her family died in the Blitz, and alone and despondent after her pilot dies, she walks into a hospital which changes her life.</p><p></p>
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- ISBN
- 9781835437995
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Olympia Publishers, (14 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 140 x 18 mm
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