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MRS. SINCLAIR'S SUITCASE
By: Louise Walters
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. Sinclairβs Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secretsβbook-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 grandmotherβs battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her familyβs history is completely upturned. Running alongside Robertaβs 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 sheβs 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. Sinclairβs Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.
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