The Future Homemakers of America

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Chapter 1: Chapter 1 : Part 1
Six Women... Their Loves, Laughter, and Lifelong Friendship. For five American Air Force wives, Norfolk, England, in 1952 is a long way from home. But Peggy Dewey and her friends are determined to make the most of their overseas mission.

Chapter 1: Chapter 1 : Part 2
Gayle and Audrey were off-base, on account of they didn't have kids. The rest of us were in quarters. They weren't much more than cabins, with flat asphalt roofs, but at least we had each other. At least inside that perimeter fence we were one Nation

For five American Air Force wives, Norfolk, England, in 1952 is a long way from home. But Peggy Dewey and her friends are determined to make the most of their overseas mission. While their husbands patrol the skies in F-84 fighters, the high-spirited group of military wives and young moms staves off homesickness by clipping coupons, trading gossip, and going to London to see Princess Elizabeth "get coronated." Over a stick of Juicy Fruit, brass polisher Audrey Rudman, good-time girl Lois Moon, alcohol-loving Gayle Jackson, "Pie Crust Queen" Betty Gillis, and the ever reliable Peggy meet a scrappy Englishwoman named Kath Pharaoh and a lasting friendship is forged. Through marriage and divorce, separations and reunions, the gang will try to hold fast to one another ... in a story that takes us to the heart of female friendship-and reveals the secret of the perfect Three Color Refrigerator Cake.

Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegram columnist and Contributing Editor to Cosmopolitan UK. This is her sixth novel, and she is currently writing the screenplay adaptation for her novel The Dress Circle..

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