The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir: A Novel
by Jennifer Ryan. Crown Publishing Group (Penguin Random House), 2017. Adult
fiction.
If you enjoy historical fiction about WWII, try this
charming tale of the women left behind in the small village of Chilbury. Told
through letters, diaries, and journal entries, the women of Chilbury confide
their secrets, their loves, and their lives in detail. Teenage sisters Kitty
and Venetia, very different girls indeed, provide a youthful look at the
village and its residents as the men go off to director herself, and a host of
others bring to life the daily goings and comings. Disaster strikes, but not
with blood war. A mother whose son leaves to fight, a family whose inheritance
depends on the birth of a boy child (as well as the midwife who is determined
to make sure that child is a male), the
wry music and guts.
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