The orange blossom special
By: Betsy Carter
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781846326028
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Widows; Orange Blossom Special (Express train); Fiction
Description: Carbondale, Illinois. 1958. For widowed Tessie Lockhart, booking two seats on a passenger train to Florida symbolizes a fresh start, far from her memories of love and loss. For Tessie's teenage daughter, Dinah, who misses her father terribly, the move to Gainesville means a new school and the painful ordeal of making new friends. Rich, popular Crystal Landy is one of the first girls Dinah meets and it will be Crystal, along with her exquisite mother, Victoria, who will transform the Lockharts' lives in ways they never could have imagined. For as war and change come to this small southern town, the bonds between mothers and daughters will be tested, friendships sealed, secrets revealed, and relationships forever altered by the turbulence of the coming decades.