The Stolen Marriage
By Diane Chamberlain
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ISBN: 9781250087270
Themes: realistic fiction Community historical
Preface
Tess has been engaged to her childhood friend Vincent for a year and is busy choosing a dress for their wedding. Then a polio outbreak takes Vincent to Chicago to volunteer his doctor skills and Tess begins to find herself doubting his commitment to their relationship.
Less than a year later Tess finds herself living in Hickory, North Carolina. She is married to a beloved furniture factory owner named Henry Kraft. Tess herself is an outsider in the town and is unhappy in her loveless marriage.
She hopes that over time they will come to love each other but Henry is cold and distant, reluctant to share aspects of himself and even more reluctant to share a marital bed. Added to that Tess suspects that his claims of working all night in his factory are far from truthful and she is disturbed to find that he has a stash of money hidden in their bedroom.
Desperate for comfort Tess turns to a local medium despite being sceptical of his gift. In doing so she finds a friend among a sea of hostile townsfolk.
When an outbreak of polio occurs in the small town the towns folk pull together to build a hospital and Tess finds meaning volunteering as a nurse.
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