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"This story ranges from the lives of four teenage girls in Swiss boarding school all the way up through their forties.
This story dives into the importance of friendship and the intense love between four girls, Judy, Maxine, Kate, and Pagan during the 1940's who all attend a Swiss boarding school together. Graduation quickly approaching and one of them finds out she is pregnant. What will she do? She turns to her friends and the four of them manage to keep the identity of the real mother impossible to find. But then the four of them were approached by a daughter whom they had put up for foster care until they could come back for her, and later told had been killed. Lili is determined to find out which one of these women is her mother, and she will stop at nothing until she reveals the whole truth."
Amy Blaine, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Pregnancy/Child rearing
Yes
Major part of story:
- giving up children
- dealing with unexpected pregnancy
- unexpected child appears
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- actor/actress/producer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Switzerland
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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