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Lake Union Publishing
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
ISBN: 1612183328
EAN: 9781612183329
Kindle: B007BSG026
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Literature and Fiction | Historical | Romance Historical
With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the
sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort
of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes.
Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice
of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and
die. And five women forge an unlikely bond of friendship
that will change their lives forever. Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is
reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their
engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl
from the Deep South. Evangeline’s arrival causes a stir in
the village—but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew
her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among
the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to
escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni
Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe
and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of
her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then
there’s Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante
whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside
and out of the papers. As the war and its relentless hardships intensify around
them, the same struggles that threaten to rip apart their
lives also bring the five closer together. They draw
strength from one another to defeat formidable
enemies—hunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi
invasion, and a traitor in their midst—and find remarkable
strength within themselves to help their friends. Theirs is
a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle
and endure years and distance. When four of the women return to Crowmarsh Priors for a VE
Day celebration fifty years later, television cameras focus
on the heartwarming story of these old women as war brides
of a bygone age, but miss the more newsworthy angle. The
women’s mission is not to commemorate or remember—they’ve
returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own.
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