Author

Publication

2013 - Doubleday Canada, Toronto], Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

82,500 words, Guess

Page Count

330 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDCC813/.6
  • LCCPR9199.4.G684 E53 2013

Description

How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and is desperate to see the world. They marry against Vivian's family's wishes--hard to say what it is, but there's something about Jack that they just don't like--and as the war draws to a close, the new couple travels to Windsor to meet Jack's family. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her new husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home that Jack depicted, they all look different from one another--and different from anyone Vivian has ever seen--and after weeks of waiting to meet Jack's father, William Henry, he never materializes.

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Other Editions

  • Emancipation Day: a novelDoubleday Canada2013-01-01

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