Ellen is no stranger to sorrow, but when she returns to the quiet village life she's long lived, she finds herself asking: In a world changed by war, is it fair to wish for an unchanged heart? Then one day Pamela is taken away, screaming. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. No one knows who little Pamela is.Įllen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn't want children. In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. The war that changed everything.ĭecember 1940. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to as the source.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. That is our big target there.”Ĭopyright 2022 The Arsenal Football Club plc. That will be the key - to be absolutely brave and try to be on the front foot from the start to the end. “As we have seen we have been remarkable at bouncing back from disappointing results. A lot of things can happen over there and we will try. It’s easy to write us off now but it’s just half-time. That’s always the sense of our game, even if the expectations will be low now. “That’s what we expected, but when you try to come back as quickly as possible, you can make some mistakes. I thought in the second half we exaggerated a bit, looked a bit over motivated at times and they got us on the break. “That would have been the key for us, then we conceded that goal with a heavy deflection - but that can happen. After, we dropped and fought not to concede.

“We came out quite well, tried to put pressure on them and created a few half-chances. “Overall it’s very disappointing for us,” he told Arsenal Player.

That’s always the sense of our game, even if the expectations will be low now'

We must be brave