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That Camden summer
Unknown author · historical fiction
The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden--where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around ... When free-thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very
About this historical novel
That Camden summer by Unknown author is historical fiction rooted in Global / multiple. The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden--where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around ... When free-thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very
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The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden--where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around ... When free-thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more than a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her girls and herself. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very
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- fiction
- divorced mothers
- women
- historical fiction
- domestic fiction
- history
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- fiction, historical, general
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