Enchanted Islands
Enchanted IslandsAllison Amend

Enchanted Islands (2016)

Allison Amend

Creators: Disliked

"Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II."--Jacket.

ISBN:
9780804172042
Length:
313 pages

Genres: historical fiction

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the only thing that kept me from DN effing this book was the fact that her writing is so adept and it was so enjoyable to read but the story was such a complete mess that it ended up overshadowing that

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