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In Common: A Novel of Love and Sacrifice

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In Common, a first novel from award-winning memoirist Norma Watkins , is a story of the sacrifices women make for the love of an inaccessible man.

Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family's popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.

Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents' hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.

This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man more in love with success than any female.

Language: English

Pages: 593

Format: Paperback

Release: April 14, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781684339235

In Common: A Novel of Love and Sacrifice

0/5 ( ratings)

In Common, a first novel from award-winning memoirist Norma Watkins , is a story of the sacrifices women make for the love of an inaccessible man.

Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family's popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.

Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents' hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.

This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man more in love with success than any female.

Language: English

Pages: 593

Format: Paperback

Release: April 14, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781684339235

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