When the Bough Breaks - Kelleher, Joan
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Four-year-old girls dream of dolls, ice cream, and fun-but not four-year-old Joan Kelleher. Her only wish is to be with her family again. She longs for her mother's embrace and enough food to eat and safety from the horrors of World War II. Torn from her home and placed with foster families forced to take in a child they do not want, is only the beginning of Joan's struggle for survival. With unwavering hope in her heart for a reunion with her family, Joan recalls the five years she endured in the homes of strangers, battling abuse, cold dark rooms . . . and indifference, while sirens screamed…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Four-year-old girls dream of dolls, ice cream, and fun-but not four-year-old Joan Kelleher. Her only wish is to be with her family again. She longs for her mother's embrace and enough food to eat and safety from the horrors of World War II. Torn from her home and placed with foster families forced to take in a child they do not want, is only the beginning of Joan's struggle for survival. With unwavering hope in her heart for a reunion with her family, Joan recalls the five years she endured in the homes of strangers, battling abuse, cold dark rooms . . . and indifference, while sirens screamed and planes flew overhead. Creating a fantastical world of make-believe where she's reunited with her family is the only joy she finds. The reunion five years later isn't the joyful celebration Joan imagined. Her family is just as broken as the war-torn buildings surrounding them. They are a family of strangers. But within Joan, there remains that same unfaltering hope and optimism, just waiting to be fulfilled. When the Bough Breaks is a heartfelt memoir, encompassing the courage and strength that one young girl possesses in a time when everything seems shattered and lost.
Autorenporträt
Joan Kelleher Gencarelli was born in London, England and has lived in Hawaii since the early sixties, where her two chil - dren and various dogs, cats, ducks and fish thrived. Joan's first career was as a technical writer who created operating procedures and systems requirements for the casualty insurance industry. In 2002, Joan "started writing for fun," which resulted in short stories inspired by ten years as an Ex-pat's wife in Beijing, Seoul and Bangkok. Childhood memories of WWII evacuation were incorporated into a short story, "Evacuation - There and Back" which became part of the BBC WWII People's War archives. Among other stories, one published in the liter - ary journal, The Rainbird , was awarded the Golden Plover Award from the Windward Arts Council. In 2006, she received the Lorin Tarr Gill Honorable Mention award for non-fiction. Joan is an avid traveler and longs to visit the few places on her list that she has not yet seen, take in the sights, meet interesting people, sample the foods on offer, and shop.