She tells me: “I lived through in the last week what a lot of people are about to experience,” adding: “The one message I want to send out is, it’s possible, be brave.” She is getting over the virus she continued to work on the go-live and she managed to look after her children.

The reason Strickland-Grogan is talking to me is not to add to the growing fear surrounding the virus, in fact, quite the opposite. It fairly quickly became clear that this wasn’t just exhaustion: both Strickland-Grogan and her husband had contracted COVID-19.

I thought I must be really tired from the project.” Strickland-Grogan, who is based in the UK and working in the UK during go-live, said: “From Wednesday night I became really fatigued and instead of supporting the go-live I went to sleep. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.Monday 9th March was a big day for slicedbread project manager, Jennie Strickland-Grogan: it was the first stage of go-live of the company’s sharedo case management system at Australian law firm Hall & Wilcox, so after months of hard work it was no wonder she was feeling exhausted. Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone.Įllen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband Selwyn had dreamed for themselves. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England during World War II, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. The child who changed everything.ĭecember 1940. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.Ī woman. Spanning World War II and the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage.

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