The Scent Of Gardenias: A Strong Woman Overcoming Circumstances Novel - 9781950452576

America, the 1940s. Margaret Rose longs to escape her family's poverty. So against her domineering father's wishes, the determined young woman elopes with an older man. But shortly after the US enters WWII, her grand ambitions sink when her husband's ship is torpedoed. Training to become a nurse to give herself a future, Margaret's despair deepens when she discovers she's pregnant and must quit to have the baby. And now without income to support a child, the desperate widow marries a man who takes her far from home? and into disaster. Will Margaret rise above catastrophic misfortune and create the life she deserves?Poignant and heartfelt, The Scent of Gardenias chronicles the struggle of a Twentieth-Century woman carving a place in a society where the odds of success are stacked against her. Inspired by her mother's true story, Lorraine Haas lays bare a brave and challenging journey of grit and self-discovery you won't soon forget. The Scent of Gardenias is a beautifully crafted women's fiction novel with raw emotional battles, family drama, and gut-wrenching dilemmas. A novel debut of courage and tenacity.

• | Author: Lorraine Haas
• | Publisher: Morewellson, Ltd.
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 413 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1950452573
• | ISBN-13: 9781950452576