I’m crying so hard by page 191 that I have to stop and explain to my husband that I am sobbing because I’m reading this extraordinary book called Once We Were Home. It follows children Ana, Roger, Oskar and Renata - children hidden, displaced or emigrated, during the second world war - who are trying to find their way home, both physically and metaphorically. Also what it means to lose parents, gain parental role models and build a good, fulfilling adult life. Apart from Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski it is not an area that has been much written about except in memoir. This is lump in your throat literature. Sad, happy and then sad again but never mawkish or clumsy. What a powerful book by the author of The Yellow Bird Sings.