She has fallen in love with her young German teacher and must decide whether to spend the summer with Max in Germany or in London working for the suffragist movement. This is a view of a prosperous middle-class family, though the plight of working-class women is glimpsed via Milly, the Fry’s maid of all work who leaves to work in a munitions factory, and Jessie’s nursing friend Ivy. Adrienne Chinn was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, grew up in Quebec, and eventually made her way to London, England after a career as a journalist.

Give me something with a well-defined storyline, add some suspense (or spice), and I am a happy reader.This was a very good story about a family of sisters and how they managed through hardships during the war, each in their own way.

The three sisters choose completely contrasting paths in life and their stories are followed as war is declared and the family separates. The Fry sisters found themselves having to forge new lives during, and after The Great War and over come many challenges. Of course there are romantic relationships for the sisters which makes for major problems given the world climate at the time.

This is the second novel I've read by this author and again, I am blown away by the descriptive details of the various backdrops as these determined young women face up to the realities of adulthood.

All three sisters have dreams for the future, but those dreams are to be thrown into disarray by the Great War.I was gifted this advance copy by Adrienne Chinn, HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review. When he goes off to war, promising to come back for her, she busies herself in her father’s photography studio and fights off the pursuits of Frank Jeffries.