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"For the Chambers family of Stonebrook, Ontario, the year 1949 is filled with promise. The post-war boom and hope for the future color every facet of life: for Bill, a hardware store manager, his wife, Sylvia, and their three young children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, possibilities seem limitless.". "In the fifty years that follow, these possibilities narrow into lives etched by character, fate and circumstance - beginning with Sylvia's untimely death, which marks her family indelibly. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path and embraces the consequences, while older son Patrick…
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11 editions · 3 languages- Other · English · 2015Good HouseHolt & Company, Henry · 9781466891586
- Other · English · 2009Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial · 9781554685264
- Other · English · 2003HarperCollins · 404 pages · 9780006393016
- Other · English · 2001Good HouseHolt & Company, Henry · 9780805064964
- Other · English · 2001Picador USA · 309 pages · 9780312420321
- Other · English · 2000H. Holt · 309 pages · 9780805064957
Brothers and sistersParent and adult childRemarried peopleFictionWorld War, 1939-1945VeteransNew York Times reviewedFiction, general








