No One Knows

by Nancy Price

A love story, a mystery, and a small town in World War II. What if you want--and deserve--revenge? Miranda is bright, funny and pretty. She loves two men who want her as much as they hate each other. The war changes all three. Miranda has a happy life, and a secret. She keeps it until no one remembers. No one knows.

333 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

“I was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and raised in Detroit, but it seems to me that I spent my childhood in books,” Nancy Price says. “At fourteen I saw a poem of mine published in the Detroit News, and there I was: a writer.”

Nancy received her B.A. in English and art from Cornell College in 1946. In 1945 she married Howard J. Thompson, who joined the faculty of the University of Northern Iowa. Their three children, Catherine, John and David, were born in the 1950s.

Reviews

[NightAuditMan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly I'd give this book 4 and a half stars, but the rating system here doesn't allow for it.

Normally I don't like to read books where the main lead is female. It's not that I have anything against women, but I'll admit that I don't get their way of thinking and so I often find myself not interested. Secondly I tend to stay away from love stories for almost the same reasons.

Luckily this story has some interesting things going for it. The idilic descriptions of post-depression small town america and growing up in that environment. Being a young adult at the beginning of WWII and the pressures on men to serve. The mental anguish of those men who returned from battle injured.

I will have to say that I was rather dissappointed that my copy of this book was missing nine pages due to some kind of printing error. 5 pages in one section and another 4 in a later section. The missing pages didn't totally distract from the overall story but it would have been nice to read what was on them.

***In a side note*** I wrote the author to inform her of the missing pages. She sent me a signed copy with the pages intact so now I know what I missed out on earlier!***

[Ellen Vaillancourt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mon avis :
Un livre divertissant, mais sans plus…
Une histoire qui se déroule pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale. Je m’attendais donc à un récit plus concentré sur les faits, mais non, l’histoire exploite plus la romance, on en vient même à oublier la guerre. J’ai pourtant lu et tourné les pages, l’histoire est bien écrite et belle, mais la trame de fond manque de profondeur, je n’ai cependant pas abandonné ma lecture.

[Reeves Honey]

P U R E A W F U L!!!!!!