I'll Be Seeing You

I'll Be Seeing You
Loretta Nyhan

Suzanne Hayes

‘I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren’t we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…’ It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita spends her life trying to make ends meet.They have nothing in common except one powerful bond: the men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. And they have only each other for support, hope and courage.Praise for I’ll Be Seeing You ‘Vivid and well-crafted, I’ll Be Seeing You poignantly illustrates the hopes and struggles of life on the home front. Readers will laugh, cry and be inspired by this timeless story of friendship and courage’-Pam Jenoff, bestselling author of Kommandant’s Girl’A delight! I’ll Be Seeing You made me want to get out a pen and paper and write a friend a good old-fashioned letter’ -  Sarah Jio, author of The Violets of March’Original and heartfelt… Set in Word War II, yet somehow timeless, this novel is as beautifully written as it is captivating. An absolutely terrific debut. -  Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me

Praise forI’ll Be Seeing You

‘I devoured this story in one greedy, glorious gulp. Oh, the women! I love them. I love their families and their voices and their stories. I bet you’ll love them, too.’

—Marisa de los Santos, bestselling author of Love Walked In

‘A delight! I’ll Be Seeing You made me want to get out a pen and paper and write a friend a good old-fashioned letter.’ —Sarah Jio, author of The Violets of March

‘Original and heartfelt … Set in World War II, yet somehow timeless, this novel is as beautifully written as it is captivating. An absolutely terrific debut.’

—Sarah Pekkanen, author of The Opposite of Me

‘Women on the WWII home front faced loneliness and terrible fears. But I’ll Be Seeing You tells the compelling story of two women who endured, bolstered by duty, love and, most important, friendship. I read this sweet, compassionate novel with my heart in my throat.’ —Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

‘Vivid and well-crafted, I’ll Be Seeing You poignantly illustrates the hopes and struggles of life on the home front. Readers will laugh, cry and be inspired by this timeless story of friendship and courage.’ —Pam Jenoff, bestselling author of Kommandant’s Girl

I’ll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes & Loretta Nyhan

www.mirabooks.co.uk (http://www.mirabooks.co.uk)

SUZANNE HAYES is the author of the novel The Witch of Little Italy (under the name Suzanne Palmieri) and her essays have been published in Life Learning Magazine and Full of Crow: On the Wing edition. She lives with her husband and three daughters in New Haven, Connecticut.

LORETTA NYHAN has worked as a journalist and copywriter, and currently teaches college writing and humanities. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and family. I’ll Be Seeing You is her first novel.

To all the women who have waited …

and to those who continue to wait

Contents

Chapter 1 (#u7fba73db-c1d6-5e01-bea9-9d5e834a3676)

Chapter 2 (#ue5d938bd-237e-56c2-8226-c1f1672e6a2b)

Chapter 3 (#uf860c945-9cec-5a80-85d0-edbfef0cb002)

Chapter 4 (#ub630fedc-8be9-5a3c-b2a1-ccac57854f9e)

Chapter 5 (#u633c36de-2dfd-5868-ad2c-c9d088fb9eb0)

Chapter 6 (#ua5669c10-e4c9-5d4f-926e-00af28137c6e)

Chapter 7 (#uefa647ff-af38-5328-bfab-4085623527a4)

Chapter 8 (#u8e367017-1755-518d-9e25-e1adceb3e1d9)

Chapter 9 (#uec5feb2f-09b6-57a3-af3a-ddb1d26d478a)

Chapter 10 (#ue3dbb76e-874a-5ed3-86e7-86bbc1a09c9c)

Chapter 11 (#u5e91fcbb-b1d0-5aeb-8b04-51d7de41e0d7)

Chapter 12 (#u494506a1-fd31-5aa4-81ef-07d508e611e3)

Chapter 13 (#u37dcb89f-15d6-5d0a-ab91-fc1843f1fd36)

Chapter 14 (#u2b41e390-d9cd-5eaf-ab57-974e40bb5229)

Chapter 15 (#u53eb8576-da16-5610-a3e2-2e102aa59e82)

Chapter 16 (#ubec9fc12-ed13-5a24-9cc5-b7aba2a4f9fe)

Chapter 17 (#u9d1f2dc0-6e4e-5ac2-aec6-064ef55eb078)

Chapter 18 (#ud192b6a6-d8d5-536a-b09d-22c7e92db0a0)

Chapter 19 (#uaa981706-4f64-5f31-83ff-07badc292bce)

Chapter 20 (#u2188a7a3-b8d4-54ff-9a66-b6f9f90a1db4)

Chapter 21 (#ue8a98947-24a6-5738-becd-abd5c0589fdb)

Chapter 22 (#ufc20e173-4943-5e17-8c61-541a7a72da07)

Chapter 23 (#u1919d565-1379-5760-9202-4a0a4ca8afd3)

Chapter 24 (#u27e06833-05cc-5898-a4f4-34f74edd4636)

Chapter 25 (#ue6c807b9-a957-51ca-b2b5-cb6b5b3090f2)

Chapter 26 (#u66e9f023-e356-52e2-aaf4-ccce2523d19d)

Chapter 27 (#ua9fde901-04bb-5605-9823-b1608506b2e0)

Chapter 28 (#ue349c5f4-ee5f-587f-981a-dcb5723f38e4)

Chapter 29 (#uffbdc65c-891d-5f46-bf38-f5dfccaf226b)

Chapter 30 (#u1df30655-b2c8-5bd4-ac6b-e8d3abfe2b69)

Chapter 31 (#ufc6c3c29-684e-5962-955d-bdd8c5e9cf3a)