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When We Were Romans is a haunting psychological novel and another masterful workfrom the author of the prize–winning English Passengers.

Nine-year-old Lawrenceis the man of his family. He watches over his mother and his willful little sisterJemima. He is the one who keeps order, especially when his mother decides they mustleave their life in England behind because of threats from Lawrence’s father. Buttheir new life in Rome does not go as planned. Short of money and living off of hismother’s old friends—all who seem to doubt her story—Lawrence soon realizes thatthings are not what they seem.