Synopsis "The war Bride's Scrapbook: A Novel in Pictures"
From the author of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, comes a profound, spirited and visually lush World War II love story, told through a new bride’s kaleidoscopic of vibrant ephemera.Lila Jerome has always been the black sheep of the family. In early 1940s Virginia, she's just graduated from college, and her parents desperately want her to marry and settle down. But Lila has never been very lucky in love-she's much more interested in studying architecture and throwing herself into war bond work on the home front. Soon, a chance connection with a new boarder in her apartment shakes up all Lila thought she knew about romance. After just a few weeks together, caught up in the dramatic spirit of the times, she finds herself eloping with a charismatic army engineer who's shipping out to fight on the European front. Through a stunning array of vintage postcards, letters, newspaper clippings, coupons, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, fashion spreads, menus and more, we follow Lila as she navigates a new marriage separated by ocean and war. In her second scrapbook novel, Caroline Preston has once again pulled from her own extraordinary collection of vintage memorabilia, transporting us back to the vibrant, tumultuous 1940s and introducing us to an unforgettable, ambitious heroine who must learn to reconcile a newfound commitment with her lifelong independence.
