TY - BOOK AU - Posey, Rafe, TI - The stars we share SN - 9781984879622 AV - PS3616.O827 S73 2021 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2021///] CY - [New York] : PB - Pamela Dorman Book/VIking KW - Friendship KW - Fiction KW - Secrecy KW - Ambition KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Post-traumatic stress disorder KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Prisoners of war KW - sears KW - Handicapped veterans KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - George VI, 1936-1952 KW - Historical fiction KW - fast N2 - "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unkown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its covert Y-service outposts on the edge of the war-torn Empire. Their post-war reunion is bittersweet: Alec, shot down and imprisoned in a series of POW camps, grapples with his feelings of uselessness, while June has found her calling"-- ER -