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Putnam
August 2015
On Sale: August 4, 2015
288 pages ISBN: 0399169504 EAN: 9780399169502 Kindle: B00OQSF8RC Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Contemporary
A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a
compulsive page-turner
about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its
best.
Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New
Bookshop in England.
When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old
suitcase that hints at a dark
secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running
alongside Roberta’s
narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless
woman desperate for
motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with
a Polish war pilot,
Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an
unthinkable decision whose
consequences forever change the framework of her family.
The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty
years as they both make
their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs.
Sinclair’s Suitcase is a
spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the
truth.
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