Next to Love: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin where recent divorcee Kit Hargrove

where recent divorcee Kit Hargrove has joyfully exchanged the requisite diamond studs and Persian rugs of a Wall Street Widow for a clapboard Cape with sea-green shutters and sprawling impatiens

an investigator with the Florence Police Department

but determined to avert defeat and protect the soldiers in her command -- dares to defy him

For generations

pure if not simple

Next to Love: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin where recent divorcee Kit HargroveFor fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. Its 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