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23 lut 2021 · BAND OF SISTERS Reader’s Guide. You may have noticed that I really, really loved researching Band of Sisters. The letters the Smith College Relief Unit sent home from the front were so full of all sorts of details and anecdotes about their daily life in the Somme.
1 mar 2022 · Band of Sisters. by Lauren Willig. 1. At the start of the novel, Emmie Van Alden says of the Smith College Relief Unit, “We’re not looking for glory. Just to do something decent and worthwhile.”.
24 kwi 2021 · With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters? Review: I have seen only a couple reviews of this book, but when I heard it was about Smith College women and based on true events, I was in.
16 mar 2021 · Band of Sisters. 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.
Lauren Willig’s latest novel, Band of Sisters (William Morrow, 2021), explores the true story of the Smith College Relief Fund, a group of American college women who crossed the Atlantic in April 1917 to help the people of the Somme region whose lives had been ravaged by the German invasion of France. “As they left, the Germans destroyed ...
11 lis 2021 · 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.
1 mar 2022 · Band of Sisters. by 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 ...
