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01647aam a2200265 a 4500 001 65168EEC52F611E6A15BD191DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160726010129 008 150812s2015 nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0399169504 020 $a 9780399169502 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Walters, Louise. 245 10 $a Mrs. Sinclair's suitcase : $b a novel / $c Louise Walters. 260 $a New York : $b G.P. Putnam's Sons, $c c2015. 300 $a 271 p. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother's battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family's history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta's narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she's finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family. The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. 650 0 $a Grandmothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Personal belongings $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bookstores $x Employees $v Fiction. 655 0 $a War stories. 655 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65168EEC52F611E6A15BD191DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search