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The War Bride’s Scrapbook: A Novel in Pictures

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A World War II love story, narrated through a new bride’s dazzling array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, and more

Lila Jerome has never been very lucky in love, and has all the time been more interested in studying architecture and, more recently, supporting the war bond effort on the home front. But in the fall of 1943, a possibility spark with a boarder in her apartment sets Lila on a course that shakes up all of her ideas about romance.

Lila is intoxicated by Perry Weld, the charismatic army engineer who’s about to ship out to the European front, and it isn’t long before she discovers that the feeling is mutual. After only some weeks together, caught up in the dramatic spirit of the times and with Perry’s departure date fast approaching, the two make a decision to elope. In a stunning kaleidoscope of vibrant ephemera, Lila boldly attempts to redefine her life in The united states as she navigates the heartache and longing of a marriage separated by ocean and war.

In her second scrapbook novel after the lauded Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, Caroline Preston has once again pulled from her own odd number of vintage memorabilia, transporting us back to the energetic, tumultuous 1940s and introducing us to an unforgettable, ambitious heroine who will have to learn how to reconcile a wartime marriage with a newfound self-confidence.

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