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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at thetime of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters their livelyIrish family and the men they love. As the novel opens Kitty and LouiseHeaney say goodbye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael who are going tofight overseas. On the domestic front meat is rationed children participatein metal drives and Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller play songs that offer hopeand lift spirits. And now the Heaney sisters sit at their kitchen table everyevening to write lettersLouise to her fiance Kitty to the man she wishesfervently would propose and Tish to an everchanging group of men she meets atUSO dances. In the letters the sisters send and receive are intimate glimpsesof life both on the battlefront and at home. For Kitty a confident headstrongyoung woman the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns aboutlove resilience and war will bring a surprise and a secret and will lead herto a radical action for those she loves. The lifelong consequences of thechoices the Heaney sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about thepower of love and the enduring strength of family. «
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