The stolen marriage
Subtitle: a novel
By: Diane Chamberlain
Contributors: Bennett, Susan (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9781427289391
Subjects: Nurses; Poliomyelitis; Married women; Child health services; Fiction
Description: In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. Feeling alone and adrift, Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her, a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on. When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town, the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital. Tess, who has a nursing degree, bucks Henry's wishes and begins to work at the hospital, finding meaning in nursing the young victims. Yet at home, Henry's actions grow more alarming by the day.
Notes: Title from container.

Compact discs.

Read by Susan Bennett.