Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets.
The Wartime Sisters: A Novel
β Scribed by Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1250140722
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β¦ Synopsis
**For fans of Lilac Girls , the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret. **
"Loigmanβs strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book." βPam Jenoff,New York Times bestselling author of The Orphanβs Tale
*"The Wartime Sistersshows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to fight, and to help each other survive.β βJenna Blum,New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lost Family and Those Who Save Us _
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Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officerβs wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a βsoldier of production.β Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives.
"One of my favorite books of the year." βFiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Masterpiece
"A stirring tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.β βKristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Lost and *Sold on a Monday *
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β¦ Subjects
Jewish fiction
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