In 1962 Virginia, with the world teetering on the brink, a schoolteacher searches for strength and hope in this moving tale by the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday.
Poppy Turner has spent more than a decade teaching children grammar and arithmetic. Suddenly her days are steeped in fears that reach well beyond a classroom filled with air-raid drills and anxious young faces. As a mother-to-be, she worries about bringing a child into a time of such turmoil. To find stability, she will have to decide if she's willing to look more closely at her own past.
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The air-raid siren wailed through the classroom, sending children scurrying like mice outrunning a balloon.- OCTOBER 4, 1962, BROWNSBORO, VIRGINIA
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(Amazon Original Stories, 27 April 2023, e-book, 44 pages, borrowed from AmazonKindle via PrimeReading)
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This is a new author for me. I really enjoyed Poppy's Story. The character is from one of the author's books, but you don't need to have read it to enjoy this story. This is a seemingly simple story of a woman worried about the world she's about to bring a child into. She wants to know more about her past as she was found abandoned in an alley. She does what anyone would and starts digging around, asking questions. This powerful story is more than it's parts. I enjoyed it a lot.
