Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Evangeline’s arrival causes a stir in the village—but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. 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 f
Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Evangeline’s arrival causes a stir in the village—but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. 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. The women’s mission is not to commemorate or remember—they’ve returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own.Revised edition: This edition of War Brides includes editorial revisions.. 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. 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 th Helen Bryan was born in Virginia, grew up in Tennessee, and is a longtime resident of London. She was inspired to write War Brides “by the true war-time stories of family and friends in the United States and England, and by the little known stories of the brave young women who joined Churchill’s Special Operations Executive.” This is her first novel. A former barrister, she is the author of an award-winning biography of Martha Washington.
- Title : War Brides
- Author : Helen Bryan
- Rating : 4.80 (793 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-16
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 123 Pages
- Asin : B007BSG026
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