Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Romance - Historical - General

It is the winter of 1941 in Fargo, North Dakota, when twenty-five-year-old Elinor kisses dreamy Darrow for the first time and believes she has just met her match. But there is one problem: she is already engaged to not one, but two, other men.

Elinor, unlike most of the women during the 1940s, believes there is more to accomplish in life than marriage and a family. As the world quickly changes, Darrow heads off to war while Elinor continues to string men along in order to avoid the dreaded title of "old maid." As Darrow's letters arrive from all over the world, Elinor struggles with...

The year is 1902 and wealthy free-spirited, and somewhat lonely Mary Anne Winters longs for questions to the world around her. That June her father hires a new manservant named Edward Bailey. While he's at first nervous in his new environment with Mary Anne's kindness he opens up and they develop a fast friendship which eventually blossoms into more. Mary Anne and Edward sneak around to be together, both longing to be officially together. Later on disaster and illness both befall Mary Anne and Edward, but the question remains; will these two be ill-fated, or will they wind up...

Spanning four generations and an infinite range of human emotions, "When We Were Young" is the story of the Mitchell family, beginning in England at the outbreak of World War II and chronicling the triumphs and tragedies of those tumultuous times. Most of all, it is the story of Jim Mitchell, a young, ambitious English boy, hardened by his wartime experience. Eager to grasp life's opportunities, he embarks on an adventure peopled by a rich cast of characters he meets along the way. The raven-haired, charismatic, Maggie Bernadette O'Toole, rebellious daughter of his father's sister, and her...