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War Brides

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By (author): Helen Bryan

An international bestseller with over one million readers. With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. 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. Evangelines arrival causes a stir in the villagebut not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. 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. And then theres 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 enemieshunger, falling bombs, the looming threat of a Nazi invasion, and a traitor in their midstand find remarkable strength within themselves to help their friends. Theirs is a war-forged loyalty that will outlast the fiercest battle and endure years and distance. When four of the women return to Crowmarsh Priors for a VE Day celebration fifty years later, television cameras focus on the heartwarming story of these old women as war brides of a bygone age, but miss the more newsworthy angle. The womens mission is not to commemorate or remembertheyve returned to settle a score and avenge one of their own. Revised edition: This edition of War Brides includes editorial revisions. See more
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  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2012
  • Publisher: Amazon Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781612183329

About Helen Bryan

Helen Bryan was born in Virginia grew up in Tennessee and is a longtime resident of London. A former barrister she is the author of an award-winning biography of Martha Washington. 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 Churchills Special Operations Executive. This is her first novel.

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