A Star for Mrs. Blake
Author: Smith, April
ISBN: 9780307948809
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
An emotionally charged historical novel based on the true story of the Gold Star Mothers, a group of women who travel to France on a pilgrimage to the graves of their World War I soldier sons during the Great Depression.
An emotionally charged historical novel based on the Gold Star Mothers.
Cora Blake never dreamed she'd go to Paris. She's 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, Cora's 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.
ISBN: 9780307948809
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
An emotionally charged historical novel based on the true story of the Gold Star Mothers, a group of women who travel to France on a pilgrimage to the graves of their World War I soldier sons during the Great Depression.
An emotionally charged historical novel based on the Gold Star Mothers.
Cora Blake never dreamed she'd go to Paris. She's 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, Cora's 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.
