Life isn’t about calm. It’s about how we handle the storm.”
This is yet another descriptive and heart rendering story about WW2. The determination and need Maureen Ritter has transports her to seek safety in a world of turmoil. I’ve read all of Eoin Dempsey’s books. I feel invested in the Ritter family! Kudos to the author for another gripping novel. The American Girl is a page turner!
“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
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“Julia played for them: for her husband and her beloved son. And tried to believe somewhere in her heart that, wherever they were, they could hear her.”
― The Orchid House
― The Orchid House
“Besides, she had survived the searingly hot nights, when sleep was rendered impossible, by reading a miasma of English novels by Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. They had served to fire her belief that 'true love' would one day be found.”
― The Orchid House
― The Orchid House
Ask M.L. Stedman - Friday, May 10th!
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