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In turn-of-the-century South Africa, 14-year-old Lettie, her youthful sibling, and her mother are Dutch Afrikaner settlers who have been taken from their plantation by British soldiers and are being in a concentration camp. It really is early on in the Boer Conflict, and Lettie's father, grandfather, and sibling are off struggling the British as thousands of Afrikaner women and children are detained. The camps are cramped and disease ridden; the risk of illness and starvation are ever present. Decided to determine their own destiny, Lettie and her family give one another strength and trust as they combat to make it through amid increasingly dire conditions. Daring and defiant, Lettie detects comfort in thoughts of stargazing with her grandfather, in her intend to be a writer, and in surprising new friendships that will both nourish and test her. A lovely testament to love, family, and pure push of will, The Lost Record of Actors was inspired by Dave Boling's grandfather's own experience as a soldier through the Boer Conflict. Lettie is a amount of abiding grace, and her account is richly drawn and impossible to ignore.
