Band of Sisters A Novel

Name: Band of Sisters
Author: Lauren Willig

Auteur: Lauren Willig

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Lauren Willig Lauren Willig

Engels
Paperback
9780062986160
12 mei 2022
544 pagina's

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Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig is a law student and Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University. She is the author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation.

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"A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines…A triumph."
— Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue

A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story—a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network—from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig.

A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith’s Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit.

Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions—all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned.

Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid—and hope—to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit.

With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 mei 2022
Aantal pagina's: 544
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Lauren Willig
Tweede Auteur: Lauren Willig
Hoofduitgeverij: William Morrow Paperbacks

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Product breedte: 135 mm
Product hoogte: 22 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 203 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm
Verpakking lengte: 203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 371 g

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EAN: 9780062986160

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Historische romans

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