Ebook {Epub PDF} A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith

April Smith is the author of the successful novels featuring FBI Special Agent Ana Grey as the central character. She is also an Emmy-nominated television writer and producer. In her research for A Star for Mrs. Blake, she traveled to Maine, New York City, Paris, Verdun, and the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery. Her home base is Santa Monica, California, where she lives with her husband/5(). A Star for Mrs. Blake is anchored in a footnote of history. The book is inspired by a diary of a real-life American colonel and Gold Star Mother liaison officer, but the story is from the author’s imagination. A Star for Mrs. Blake. An emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the s about five American women — Gold Star Mothers — who travel to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, .

During the early s, the U.S. government arranged for grieving "Gold Star Mothers" to visit the French burial sites of their sons killed during World War I. This historical fiction by mystery author Smith (White Shotgun, , etc.) concerns a woman named Cora Blake and her travel companions. April Smith. Average rating: · 6, ratings · 1, reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors. A Star for Mrs. Blake. avg rating — 3, ratings — published — 2 editions. Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read. In a little-known footnote of history, mothers of sons killed in World War I received reparations of sorts. Those whose sons' bod­ies were buried in France were invited by the U.S. government to visit their graves in Meuse-Argonne. So begins a journey for Cora, a widow from Maine who has lost her only child. She does not take this jour­ney alone, however; she is joined by.

April Smith has the unique ability to take a long forgotten story and craft it into a page turner. A Star for Mrs. Blake is a first rate novel that is well worth reading. A Star for Mrs. Blake is anchored in a footnote of history. The book is inspired by a diary of a real-life American colonel and Gold Star Mother liaison officer, but the story is from the author’s imagination. A Star for Mrs. Blake. by. April Smith (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 3, ratings · reviews. The United States Congress in passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6, Gold Star Mothers made the trip.