{"product_id":"next-to-love-9780812982411","title":"Next to Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,\u003c\/i\u003e a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIt’s 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing. As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way it was.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From postwar traumas to women’s rights, racial injustice to anti-Semitism, Babe, Grace, and Millie experience the dislocations, the acute pains, and the exhilaration of a society in flux. Along the way, they will learn what it means to be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor. Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eNext to Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to the brave women who shaped a nation’s destiny.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Impossible to put down.” —Stacy Schiff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58383240397187,"sku":"9780812982411","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780812982411.jpg?v=1783026043","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/next-to-love-9780812982411","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}