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Two wars and a wedding a novel

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine-a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith...

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Main Author: Willig, Lauren (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : William Morrow, [2023]
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United States. > Army. > Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Women archaeologists > Fiction.
Nurses > Fiction.
Military nursing > Fiction.
Greco-Turkish War, 1897 > Fiction.
Spanish-American War, 1898 > Fiction.
Greece > Fiction.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine-a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world's most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey erupts into open warfare, Betsy's archaeological sites become battlefields and she falls into the grim and heroic task of nursing the wounded. As the world around her is irrevocably changed, Betsy finds her heart pulled in multiple directions. June 1898: As the Spanish-American war begins, an older and wiser Betsy Hayes is searching for her former best friend Ava, who she last saw in Greece during the Greco-Turkish War. She believes that Ava might be with the Red Cross headed to Cuba, so Betsy herself joins the Red Cross and follows Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting. As she enters the war zone, dark memories of her last war resurface and her need to protect old and new friends intensifies.
Physical Description:434 pages : map ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780062986184
006298618X
Author Notes:Lauren Willig majored in renaissance studies and political science at Yale University, studied English history at Harvard University, and received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She started writing the Pink Carnation series during law school. She practiced as a litigation associate at a large New York law firm for a year and a half before deciding to become a full-time writer.

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