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Wonderful page-turner about a woman who comes into a dreary mining community during WWII, bringing with her the whiff of perfume, the colorful clothes and make-up of a starlet, and a sense of purpose & freedom for her female students and their mothers. If you've read Wakefield's memoir, "Forties' Ch...
I've just discovered Tom Wakefield. I don't know why I've never come across him before and I can't remember now how I learned about him. I started out reading "Lot's Wife." I'm not done with it yet, but this one came in at the library before I'd finished that one and I thought I'd take a glance at i...