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On the eve of World War Two, the lives of an Irish family in Westmeath are about to be changed for ever. Preston's story spans three generations and taking in the battlefields of Syria and Egypt, a farm in Australia, night sorties over Germany, Lincolnshire air fields and the horror of a Sumatran prison camp.

From the author of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, comes a profound, spirited and visually lush World War II love story, told through a new bride's kaleidoscopic of vibrant ephemera.

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a literary bottle rocket-loaded with whimsy, pizzazz, and heart."-Adriana Trigiani "Is it possible that I have just read/experienced/devoured the most delightful book ever published?

Follows a thirtyish graduate who unexpectedly finds herself helping a celebrity biographer research the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and ends up discovering surprising parallels between her own life and that of the queen of Camelot.Josie Trask is a thirtyish graduate student whose husband is the pet of their American Civilization Department and whose three-year-old son is the apple of her eye. But Josie has two pressing problems. Find out w...

Preston deftly evokes the entire arc of Ginevras story--from her first romantic meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes troubled life. An affecting story of two people--one world famous, one a private person known only through her portrayals in fiction.