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Also by Susan Meissner:

A Map to Paradise, March 2025
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Only The Beautiful, March 2024
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The Last Year of the War, April 2020
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The Last Year of the War, March 2019
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As Bright as Heaven, February 2019
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As Bright as Heaven, February 2018
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A Bridge Across the Ocean, March 2017
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Stars Over Sunset Boulevard, January 2016
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The Amish Clockmaker, February 2015
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A Fall of Marigolds, February 2014
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The Shape Of Mercy, September 2008
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AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN
By: Susan Meissner

Berkley
February 2019
On Sale: January 22, 2019
464 pages
ISBN: 0399585974
EAN: 9780399585975
Kindle: B072HS2J83
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Other Editions
Hardcover (February 2018)

Women's Fiction Historical

From the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters--Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa--a chance at a better life.

But just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Amidst the tragedy and challenges, they learn what they cannot live without--and what they are willing to do about it.

As Bright as Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it.