Post-War Dreams
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
World War II has ended and the soldiers are coming home. After years of following her crop worker father, motherless Claire Flanagan is also coming home. If she can keep her father in one place long enough, she plans to follow her dreams to Hollywood. Until she meets Benjamin.
Benjamin Russell has been working since he was fifteen to support his mother and siblings. What he most wants in life is to own a construction business and take care of the family his father abandoned. The last thing he expects is to fall for his younger sister’s best friend.
Life, however, throws cruel twists and turns into the path of romance. And when an unrequited love seeks revenge against Claire, and Benjamin learns his ex-girlfriend is pregnant, will lost dreams of a future together be the only thing they have left?
Customer Reviews
Transports you to another time
Beautifully written book immerses you in the late 1940’s. This is the first book I’ve read that focuses strictly on the civilian population and has nothing to do with family members returning or how returning soldiers are adjusting back to civilian life. It is a coming of age story in this time period
I loved the characters. Claire and her father moved around a lot so she hasn’t been able to make really close friends until now. She and Pauline Russell become friends which exposes Claire to family life that she’s been missing. Ben is rather serious, very responsible, and Claire brings a certain spark into his life. Mrs. Russell is the mother everyone wishes they had but who knows what’s going on in all the activity swirling around her.
My only criticism is that it ended rather abruptly. Otherwise, a wonderful book. This my first book by this author but it won’t be the last.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.