General Fiction Large Print Edition Evacuated to Wales at the start of World War II, Rose Forster was doubly bereft when her parents were killed in an air raid and her sister Gracie married a GI and went to live in California. Now almost eighteen, Gracie has finally sent for her. With mixed feelings about leaving her surrogate family, Rose arrives in L.A. with stars in her eyes. Out of her depth in a world she never knew existed, Rose finds refuge in communications from home. But when she returns to Wales, the California girl doesn t know where she belongs any more . . .
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Evacuated to Wales during the London blitz of WWII, young Rose Forster further endures the death of her parents in the bombing and the loss of her older sister, Gracie, who sails to the States with her husband, a Yank soldier. Years later, Gracie fulfills her promise to bring her sister, now 18, "across the pond." Rose arrives in L.A. as a strikingly pretty virgin with a British accent and a dream of becoming a starlet. Saunders's (To Love and Honour) depiction of Hollywood is as stereotypical as everything else in this rickety romance. Everywhere Rose turns, men are grabbing her, trying to kiss her, even attempting to lure her into pornographic films. After she lands a job as a secretary, her boss, who seems at first a decent sort, turns out to be a sexual pervert, leaving Welshman Evan Pritchard as the true object of the young woman's affection. Rose is an unsympathetic heroine, whiny and indecisive, and her big romance with Evan occurs in large part over the phone?one of the few modern notes in a novel that otherwise suffers from a sensibility so dated that it borders on camp.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Determined to carve out a new life for herself, an ambitious young woman is haunted by visions of her past and the man she left behind. Evacuated from London to a small Welsh mining village during World War II, little Rose Forster dreams of a more prosperous and glamorous life in the U.S. These dreams intensify when her parents are killed in a bombing raid and her older sister marries a GI. Forced to remain in Wales after the war, Rose eagerly awaits the day her sister and her husband will send for her. When she finally arrives in Los Angeles, she belatedly realizes she must compromise her standards and ideals to get ahead in this often seedy and brash new world. Growing more disillusioned with her new life, Rose travels back to Wales in order to seek out her first love and discover if it is ever really possible to go home again. A gentle fairy tale brimming with romance and featuring a suitably happy ending. Margaret Flanagan
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