When she awakens after surgery, she learns that her mother (Mam) was killed in a bombing raid in London. Previously, she had an untreated clubfoot that made the sole of her foot face upward. The novel opens as Ada prepares for surgery to straighten her ankle. Ada and Jamie were evacuated from the London slums to the countryside at the start of World War II (1939), and Susan insisted on becoming their guardian after learning that their mother is abusive. Ada and Jamie live with a woman named Susan in a small village in Kent. Set in Britain from 1940 to 1943, The War I Finally Won recounts three years in the lives of 11-year-old Ada and her six-year-old brother Jamie.
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