Never Forget You
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Never Forget You
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Narrated by:
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Tor Leijten
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By:
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Jamila Gavin
About this listen
A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin MBE, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.
England, 1937.
Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something in common. Their parents are all abroad, leaving them in their English boarding school, where they soon form an intense friendship. The four friends think that no matter what, they will always have each other. Then the war comes.
The girls find themselves flung to different corners of the war, from the flying planes in the Air Transport Auxiliary to going undercover in the French Resistance. Each journey brings danger and uncertainty as each of them wonders if they can make it through – and what will be left of the world. But at the same time, this is what shows them who they really are – and against this impossible backdrop, they find new connections and the possibility of love.
Will the four friends ever see each other again? And when the war is over, who will be left to tell the story?
A heartbreaking and gripping story of hope, fear and unbreakable friendship, for readers of Code Name Verity and When the World Was Ours.
©2022 Jamila Gavin (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedListeners also enjoyed...
Gwen, Nor, Dodo and Vera have formed a firm group friendship at the English boarding school, bonded by their shared experience of having parents living abroad. Their bond is so close that of course it will last for ever - won’t it? But this is 1937 and as they finish their school days, the threatened war finally arrives across Europe endangering themselves and their families.
Gavin is brilliant and creating totally real characters and a meticulously detailed and accurate background. What makes her so satisfying is her rugged approach to the reality of t war: the London Blitz, the devastating treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, the theories of the belief in the Aryan race, interrogation under torture:. Themes such as these are viscerally and dramatically created whilst inside the girls’ young minds they struggle with concepts of duty, betrayal, love, fear of death and loss, loyalty, bereavement, and violence. The story shies away from none of these tough topics, showing too the intensely moving endurance, hope and courage of those living through those years.
I’m surprised that it is recommended for readers of 11+ and 12+ . I think many readers this young could be really distressed by quite a lot of the content, would find many of the concepts beyond them and find some of the language too challenging. It will no doubt be used in schools as part of WW2 learning topics – but I would have thought for Years 8 or 9.
The narrator has a very pleasant voice and she reads the French well, as in the touchingly plangent Never forget You refrain in French. But she makes far too many mispronunciations of words – the one I found most puzzling was her word “Pee-Kay”. Is she saying ‘picquet’? But that makes no sense in the context. Then I realise she means ‘pique’ (which should be pronounced ‘peek’). It’s a shame that there are these glaring errors in an otherwise professional narration.
A story you won't forget
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Entertaining book, infuriating reader
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Absolutely beautiful story
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