Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Band of Sisters

Band of Sisters

Lauren Willig
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story—a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network—from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig.

A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith’s Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit.

Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions—all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned. 

Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid—and hope—to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit.

With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?  
Pages
528
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
William Morrow
Release
March 02, 2021
ISBN
0062986155
ISBN 13
9780062986153

Band of Sisters

Lauren Willig
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story—a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network—from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig.

A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith’s Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit.

Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions—all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned. 

Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid—and hope—to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit.

With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?  
Pages
528
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
William Morrow
Release
March 02, 2021
ISBN
0062986155
ISBN 13
9780062986153

More books from Lauren Willig

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Glass Ocean

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Masque of the Black Tulip

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Deception of the Emerald Ring

3.9/5 ( ratings)

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

4/5 ( ratings)

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Ashford Affair

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The English Wife

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

3.7/5 ( ratings)

That Summer

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Orchid Affair

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

3.6/5 ( ratings)

A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

3.8/5 ( ratings)

That Summer

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Weihnachtsherzen: Die schönsten Geschichten zum Fest

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Forgotten Room

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night (Pink Carnation, #7.1)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Other Daughter

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader