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I am a woman enough to admit that history has me a little tears in her eyes. But is not the sign of a good book if you only look out to both fictional characters?

This is the beginning of World War I, before America entered the war. Sara Lee Kennedy is a Pennsylvanian young woman whose life is already planned by the company if they do not themselves. She is married worked as a Harvey, and found inspiration for a life given, children and the old. But something happened, SaraLee. While the church and society to pull together to money and material to the beleaguered Belgian, Sara Lee feels the call to do something more to send. It will actually go to the front and open a soup kitchen, a shelter for the poor soldiers have something to eat, rest a cup of coffee and a dry place for a moment. Of course, Harvey is totally against this series. Let them take care of foreigners is his opinion. But Sara Lee is the backbone to defy convention andTravel by himself to England.

During this time she meets Henry, a Belgian spy who constantly risk their lives to important tactical information, collect his country. It helps to Sara Lee by jumping into the smuggling of Calais, a town under martial law and in the immediate vicinity of the front. Helping with Henry and others, "Sara Lee takes an abandoned, bombed the house and began his professional life rewarding.

Henry eventually confesses that he fell in love with Sara Lee, but it is a realCharacter on the question of his own feelings. She loves Henry, but she is in love with him? And what about Harvey, is constantly harassed they go in letters home. She loves him, right? She made a solemn promise to return and marry her, she can not go back.

Who is Sara Lee chose? T-survived the war to choose? You have to read the book to find out.

The Amazing Interlude (The Bestsellers of 1918) Overview

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mind, of course, for in her small circle young unmarried women accepted the major events of life without question, and certainly without conversation. She never, for instance, allowed her Uncle James, with whom she lived, to see her working at the afghan; and even her Aunt Harriet had supposed it to be a sweater until it assumed uncompromising proportions. Sara Lee’s days, up to the twentieth of December, 1914, had been much alike. In the mornings she straightened up her room, which she had copied from one in a woman’s magazine, with the result that it gave somehow the impression of a baby’s bassinet, being largely dotted Swiss and ribbon. Yet in a way it was a perfect setting for Sara Lee herself. It was fresh and virginal, and very, very neat and white. A resigned little room, like Sara Lee, resigned to being tucked away in a corner and to having no particular outlook. Peaceful, too. Sometimes in the morning between straightening her room and going to the market for Aunt Harriet, Sara Lee looked at a newspaper. So she knew there was a war. She read the headings, and when the matter came up for mention at the little afternoon bridge club, as it did now and then after the prizes were distributed, she always said ” Isn’t it horrible! ” and changed the subject. On the night of the nineteenth of December Sara Lee had read her chapter in the Bible — she read it through once each year — and had braided down her hair, which was as smooth and shining and lovely asSara Lee herself, and had raised her window for the night when Aunt Harriet came in. Sara Lee did not know, at first, that she had a visitor. She stood looking out toward the east, until Aunt Harriet touched her on the arm. “What in the world!” said Aunt Harriet. “A body would suppose it was August.” ” I was just …

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