If I Were You: A Novel - Hardcover
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If I Were You: A Novel opens in 1950 with an English war widow reaching America to find that her oldest friend has been living as her.
Lynn Austin runs two clocks. One is the arrival and the unpicking of a four year deception, the other is the friendship that made it possible.
The setup
Audrey Clarkson leaves an English manor house for in laws she has never met. Eve Dawson, the daughter of her mother's lady's maid, got there first and took her name.
The 1940 thread puts both women behind the wheel of an ambulance through the bombing of London, which is where the class line between them stops meaning anything.
Who it's for
Readers of Christian historical fiction, and anyone who takes the home front over the battlefield. The Blitz chapters and the research behind them are what reviewers single out.
From the publisher
"A stunning historical saga of hardship and desire in wartime. . . . Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough in this] . . .
unique take on the traditional World War 2 tale." --Library Journal
From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award-winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood, self-discovery, and romance set against the backdrop of WW2.
1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son.
As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years.
Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve's secrets--and the complicated history of their friendship--to the surface.
1940. Eve and Audrey have been as different as two friends can be since the day they met at Wellingford Hall, where Eve's mother served as a lady's maid for Audrey's mother. As young women, those differences become a polarizing force . . .
until a greater threat--Nazi invasion--reunites them. With London facing relentless bombardment, Audrey and Eve join the fight as ambulance drivers, battling constant danger together. An American stationed in England brings dreams of a brighter future for Audrey, and the collapse of the class system gives Eve hope for a future with Audrey's brother.
But in the wake of devastating loss, both women must make life-altering decisions that will set in motion a web of lies and push them both to the breaking point long after the last bomb has fallen.
This sweeping story transports readers to one of the most challenging eras of history to explore the deep, abiding power of faith and friendship to overcome more than we ever thought possible.
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