![]() ![]() From there we are then introduced to Lillian and Arietta who both have experienced life changing events. After the death of their parents, and Millie’s husband comes up missing, Ruth invites Millie to live with her and her family at the Springfield Armory. As they grow up, their relationship becomes almost non existent. ![]() They are complete opposites of each other in all aspects of the word. This story mainly follows two sisters, Ruth and Millie. Having read and enjoyed Loigman’s debut novel, The Two-Family House, I was very happy to see that she was about to publish her second novel AND it was a historical fiction! Definitely something different for a WW2 novel. I am thankful that the author chose this for her setting. This was a place that I had never heard of before and after reading this story I definitely want to learn more about it. ![]() The main setting of this story is at the Springfield Armory during WW2. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. ![]()
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