The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas – Review by Tausha Treadway

The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas. I fell in love with this book and I read it in one sitting. Book hangover! Totally worth it! Its a story set in the 40’s right as WWII begins. Its about a young girl named Margaret Rose who is a very poor 16 year old and she’s determined not to end up like her mom, raising kids and cooking and cleaning. Her father is abusive when he drinks and sometimes when he doesn’t. Her older brother is her security blanket and he ends up signing up and gets shipped off to war. So determined to get out of her father’s house she elopes with an older man but ends up devastated when his ship is bombed. She learns nursing thru the town Doctor and even ends up in nursing school. When she remarries and gets pregnant she drops out. Her husband ends up falling in love with someone else and divorces her so she remarries again desperate to leave poverty and end up being moved far from home and in a much worse situation. This read is full of emotions and its a very wonderful novel about a very sad life.

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