Experience the story of three unforgettable women—and the
friendships that unfold at a pivotal moment in history.
“A powerful, haunting, deeply ambitious novel about love and
war, impeccably executed, impossible to put down.”—Stacy
Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra: A Life
It’s 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and
never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet
Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and
everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter
on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant
daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third
member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always
refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry
Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing.
As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes
its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and
civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way
it was. Along the way, the women will learn what it means to
be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor.
Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, Next to Love is a
love letter to the brave women who shaped a nation’s destiny.
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