Bibliograph

Band of sisters, a novel, Lauren Willig

Type

Label

Band of sisters, a novel, Lauren Willig

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Band of sisters

Responsibility statement

Lauren Willig

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith's Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit. Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions -- all of which immediately go astray

Target audience

adult

Creator