| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
11 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
140000 |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Performer |
Read by Susan Bennett. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. Feeling alone and adrift, Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her, a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry's wishes and begins to work at the hospital, finding meaning in nursing the young victims. Yet at home, Henry's actions grow more alarming by the day. |
| Subject |
Married women -- Fiction.
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Nurses -- Fiction.
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Child health services -- Fiction.
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Poliomyelitis -- Fiction.
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North Carolina -- Fiction.
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Child health services. (OCoLC)fst00854442
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Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701
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Nurses. (OCoLC)fst01041618
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Poliomyelitis. (OCoLC)fst01068830
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North Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204304
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Bennett, Susan (Narrator)
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| ISBN |
9781427289391 |
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1427289395 |
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