Our Last Goodbye

By Shirley Dickson

Book Overview

From the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Orphan Sisterscomes a poignant and heart-wrenching WWII story of family, secrets, and a love to survive the impossible -- for readers of Natasha Lester and Pam Jenoff
England, 1943: When twenty-five-year-old May Robinson's mother is tragically killed one foggy night, May is heartbroken and terrified. She isn't sure she has the strength to harbor the secret they have kept for so many years-the secret her mother devoted her life to hiding. The secret that would tear their broken family even further apart.
Instead, May vows to make her mother proud by training to be a nurse at Edgemoor General Hospital in South Shields. Surrounded by wailing air-raid sirens and the eternal drone of enemy planes, May tends wounded, ashen-faced soldiers. Working tirelessly alongside her is kindhearted Richard Bentley. May is immediately drawn to his sparkling brown eyes and the way he makes her laugh.
Among the death and despair, May and Richard become beacons of hope for each other-but May wonders why he isn't fighting in the war like the thousands of other brave young men. Yet May, longing to escape her past, has kept her own secret hidden from Richard. As the peril and uncertainty around them grows, she finds herself asking: How well do they really know each other? And with the war coming closer to home, May cannot keep her shocking truth from coming to light . . .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538703734
• ISBN13: 9781538703731
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Forever
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Loose ends

I enjoyed the story well enough, I'm a sucker for WWII stories of those who found a way through it all and held on to their humanity against all odds. This story was a good one with characters I could like, but the author seemed to start things that she did not finish (ex: Alec) and which may not have needed to have such detail in the story. It made them feel important to the characters when it was really a moment in time that could've been far less involved. I love to read, and as long as the characters feel real and the editing is not too terrible to read through, I can still say that I enjoyed it. Such is the case with this one for me.