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Flirting with destiny
Louise, Imogen, Cora, and Miranda, four privileged young women, find their friendship tested when their big plans for life after school are abruptly changed by World War I.
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1183301
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1354981
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/500032140#Event/1914_1918
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148236
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- "Louise, Imogen, Cora, and Miranda, four privileged young women, find their friendship tested when their big plans for life after school are abruptly changed by World War I."@en
- "Four young friends, Imogen, Louise, Cora, and Miranda, leave their cloistered life in an English upper-class boarding school as WWI begins. Everything they expected--travel, parties, finishing school, and, ultimately, good marriages--is not to be. None of the girls has had any training that is helpful to the war effort, so each must learn to cope with the new world in her own fashion. Imogen decides to become a nurse. The hard work is nothing compared with trying to fit in with girls who resent her station in life. Cora and Miranda find it difficult to adapt when their whole lives were based on the expectations of marrying each other's brothers, who are now off fighting. Louise decides to help her father by entertaining his associates and develops a reputation for being fast. How each privileged yet vulnerable young woman learns to deal with the changes war brings reveals her true character."@en
- "Summer, 1914. As the storm clouds gather over Europe, four privileged young women prepare to leave school and embark on adult life. But for Louise, Imogen, Cora and Miranda, the outbreak of war will change everything. Instead of foreign holidays and glamorous parties, leading to good marriages, they must learn to adjust to a new and very different world. The young men are called up, travel is curtailed, and women are needed for war work. Some, like Imogen, find satisfaction in nursing, but for Louise, in particular, the adjustment is very hard. The difficult years ahead test their characters to the full and strain their once-strong friendship.--From inside front book jacket."@en
- "As the storm clouds gather over Europe, four privileged young women prepare to leave school and embark on adult life. But for Louise, Imogen, Cora and Miranda, the outbreak of war will change everything. Instead of foreign holidays and glamorous parties, leading to marriage and babies, they must learn to adjust to a new and very different world. The difficult years ahead test their characters to the full, and strain their once-strong friendship."
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- "Flirting with destiny"@en