I am so excited to help Lauren Willig spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I love reading historical fiction and Lauren’s previous books have been so good. I am so excited to read this one.This
book will be released March 2, 2021, but you can pre-order now. See the pre-order link
below.
Title: Band of Sisters
Author: Lauren Willig
Published: On Sale March 2, 2021, William Morrow
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Summary:
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?
About the Author: Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several novels. She lives in New York City with her family.
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PRE-ORDER BAND OF SISTERS NOW:
BAND OF SISTERS
by Lauren Willig
William Morrow
March 2, 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0062986153
eBook ISBN: B089T1SYDS
This cover looks so great!