The Stolen Marriage

Beschreibung

'Fans of Jodi Picoult's style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes' - Candis<BR><BR>Set in 1940s America, The Stolen Marriage is a compelling mystery novel about a young woman trapped in her marriage. From Diane Chamberlain, the bestselling author of The Silent Sister and The Last House on the Street.<BR><BR>In 1944, Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life, marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina.

Her new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night - and Tess quickly comes to realize that she is now trapped in a strange and loveless marriage.<BR><BR>The people of Hickory love and respect Henry and see Tess as an outsider, treating her with suspicion and disdain. What does everyone know about Henry that she does not?<BR><BR>When a polio epidemic strikes the town, taking the lives of some of its children, the townspeople band together to quickly build a polio hospital.

Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry's wishes and begins to work at the hospital.<BR><BR>As Henry's actions grow more baffling and alarming by the day, can Tess untangle her husband's mysterious behaviour - and save her own life?<BR><BR>'I love Diane's writing' - Cathy Kelly, author of The Year That Changed Everything

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