The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff Faire Destined to witness the battle

Destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world

implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women

Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators

This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny

A pro-life protester

The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff Faire Destined to witness the battleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphans Tale comes an intoxicating novel of love and redemption during a time of war. Summer 1941. Young Adelia Montforte flees fascist Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her well meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie Connally, the eldest of the four Irish Catholic boys next door. But all hopes for a future together are soon throttled by the war and a