Her mother, an ex-model, will do anything for love--and all the neighbors know it. Her father, a rich business executive, is cold and aloof. Now the Schmidt family has moved to California, and eighteen-year-old Eden must face a tough new school and a creepy, old house that certainly feels haunted.
Until We Meet
β Scribed by Camille Di Maio
- Book ID
- 111029668
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 623 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781538738023
- ASIN
- B096RRCTTV
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β¦ Synopsis
A poignant and page-turning story of three women whose lives are forever changed by war.β¦
New York City, 1943
*Can one small act change the course of a life?*Margaretβs job at the Navy Yard brings her freedoms she never dared imagine, but she wants to do something more personal to help the war effort. Knitting socks for soldiers is a way to occupy her quiet nights and provide comfort to the boys abroad. But when a note she tucks inside one of her socks sparks a relationship with a long-distance pen pal, she finds herself drawn to a man sheβs never even met.
Can a woman hold on to her independence if she gives away her heart? Gladys has been waiting her whole life for the kinds of opportunities available to her now that so many men are fighting overseas. Sheβs not going to waste a single one. And sheβs not going to let her two best friends waste them either. Then she meets someone who values her opinions as much as she likes giving them, and suddenly she is questioning everything she once held dear.
*Can an unwed mother survive on her own?*Dottie is in a dire situationβsheβs pregnant, her fiancΓ© is off fighting the war, and if her parents find out about the baby, theyβll send her away and make her give up her child. Knitting helps take her mind off her uncertain futureβuntil the worst happens and she must lean on her friends like never before.
With their worlds changing in unimaginable ways, Margaret, Gladys, and Dottie will learn that the unbreakable bond of friendship between them is what matters most of all.
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