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Woman's Place
By Lynn Austin
Retail: $13.99
Description: They watched their
sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to fight a growing
menace across the seas.
And when their nation asked, they answered the
call as well...
Virginia longs to find a purpose beyond others'
expectations
Helen is driven by a loneliness money can't
fulfill
Rosa is desperate to flee her in-laws' rules
Jean hopes to prove herself in a man's world
Under the storm clouds of destruction that
threaten America during the early 1940s, this unlikely gathering
of women will experience life in sometimes starling new ways as
their beliefs are challenged and they struggle toward a new
understanding of what love and sacrifice truly mean.
Author Information: Lynn Austin
has won Christy Awards for her historical novels Candle in the
Darkness and Fire by Night, as well as Hidden
Places, which has been made into a Hallmark Channel movie.
Lynn and her family live near Chicago, Illinois.
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Lynn Austin's latest book explores the lives of
four women in small town Michigan during WWII. The unlikely
quartet of heroines-a mouthy Italian, a farm girl desperate to go
to college, a spinster schoolteacher who's inherited a fortune,
and a bored housewife-meet and become fast friends when they take
Rosie the Riveter jobs at a local factory.
Austin takes you into the lives of these women and keeps you
engrossed in their stories. Though each chapter is written from
the perspective of one of the characters, their lives are
intertwined. While some of the storylines were predictable, yet
others were shocking.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I finished it
way too soon!
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