The War Bride's Scrapbook (Hardcover)

from UnderMyAppleTree

After only a few weeks together, Lila and Perry elope. Their story is told in the first person by Lila using photos, drawings, notes, correspondence, newspaper/magazine clippings, illustrations, advertisement - all types of memorabilia. An original concept that I enjoyed reading. This is a love s...

from Kek55

Using scrapbook pages covered in vintage ephemera and typed notes and comments, Preston tells the story of a WWII furlough bride whose husband almost immediately ships out to build bridges in war torn Europe, leaving the bride to deal with her startled family, her new in-laws, and her pursuit of ...

from Beamis12

3.5 A story told with letters, scrapbook items, postcards, advertisements, and other items painting picture of a life and a war. Lila was never the pretty one, that was her sister, she was chubby, not socially adept. She goes to college where she briefly meets Perry. Years later a slimmer more co...

from UnderMyAppleTree

After only a few weeks together, Lila and Perry elope. Their story is told in the first person by Lila using photos, drawings, notes, correspondence, newspaper/magazine clippings, illustrations, advertisement - all types of memorabilia. An original concept that I enjoyed reading. This is a love s...

from Kek55

Using scrapbook pages covered in vintage ephemera and typed notes and comments, Preston tells the story of a WWII furlough bride whose husband almost immediately ships out to build bridges in war torn Europe, leaving the bride to deal with her startled family, her new in-laws, and her pursuit of ...