02400cam a2200481 i 4500 422248228 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 170517s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017288351 9781101906750 hardcover 1101906758 hardcover (OCoLC)971129457 FMG eng FMG rda FMG OCLCO YDX LAP TXDRI OCLCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX HQD ORX ZQP KL8 ILC ZGV IGA VP@ OJ4 WIMVL OCLCQ OCLCO OCP OCLCF HTPCL XFG DLC TxAuBib rda Ryan, Jennifer, (Jennifer L.) The Chilbury Ladies' Choir : a novel / Jennifer Ryan. First edition. New York : Crown, [2017] 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Illustration on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references. Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front. As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead resurrect themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. There's a timid widow devastated when her only son goes to fight; the older daughter of a local scion drawn to a mysterious artist; her younger sister pining over an impossible crush; a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia hiding a family secret; and a conniving midwife plotting to outrun her seedy past. 20200101. World War (1939-1945.) 1939-1945. Choirs (Music) England Fiction. Choirs (Music.) Women England Fiction. Women. World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction. England. Fiction Contemporary Women. Fiction Epistolary. Fiction Historical. Fiction. Diary fiction. Historical fiction. Epistolary fiction.