She’s driven to make a difference-for her country and for herself. Then comes the opportunity: go undercover as a spy in the French Resistance to help steal critical intelligence that could ultimately turn the tide of the war.ĭispatched behind enemy lines and in constant danger, Anna is filled with adrenaline, passion, and fear. But the more Anna learns about the organization’s secret missions, the more she longs to be stationed abroad.
Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan.ĭonovan has faith in her-and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they’ll draw strength-and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.“Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC.
The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition.
Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future.Īmbitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy.
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