Book giveaway: A Star for Mrs. Blake #parisinjuly2023
A Star for Mrs. Blake,
by
April Smith
(historical fiction)
Published September 23, 2014
at Penguin Random House
352 pages
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SYNOPSIS
In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith tells the story of five courageous women who made the American Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage to France in 1929 to visit the graves of their sons who fought in WWI.
The U.S. government sponsored first class trips for 6,693 Gold Star Mothers from Paris to the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery to say their final good-byes, officially honoring the sacrifice of women in war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yes, I’m the same April Smith
who writes the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey Mystery/Thriller,
but I’ve taken a new direction into suspenseful historical fiction.
A STAR FOR MRS. BLAKE, set in the 1930s,
tells the untold true story of the Gold Star Mothers pilgrimages to Europe
to visit the graves of their loved ones killed during WWI.
My latest novel, HOME SWEET HOME, takes place in 1950s South Dakota,
where a family becomes the victim of a witch hunt during the McCarthy era.
Where do I get such wide-ranging ideas?
I grew up in the Bronx, New York, where the Kingsbridge Road Branch public library
was the center of my universe.
There it was safe and warm — the library was a tiny space above a dry cleaners —
and I was free to explore everything from science fiction to James Bond.
I moved to Los Angeles to write and produce TV shows
— most recently the miniseries, Mrs. America, starring Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly,
but I am still, firmly and forever, happy in the world of books.
Visit her website,
or connect with her on Facebook and Twitter
You can also contact her here
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