A Star for Mrs. Blake

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UPC:
9780307948809
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2014-09-23
Release Date:
2014-09-23
Author:
April Smith
Language:
english

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Product Overview

An emotionally charged historical novel based on the Gold Star Mothers.

Cora Blake never dreamed shed go to Paris. Shes hardly ever left the small fishing village where she grew up. Yet in the summer of 1931, she is invited to travel to France with hundreds of other Gold Star Mothers, courtesy of the U.S. government, to say goodbye to their fallen sons, American casualties of World War I who were buried overseas.

Chaperoned by a dashing West Point officer, Coras group includes the wife of an immigrant chicken farmer; a housemaid; a socialite; a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and dozens of other women from all over the country. Along the way, the women will forge lifelong friendships as they face a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed.

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