The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas reviewed by Tabitha Montero

The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Margaret Rose wants more in her 1940s life than being a mother and a housewife as her controlling father wants. She defies her father and elopes with a much older man before he enters the war only to find herself quickly widowed and pregnant. She finds that no one will hire a single mother and leaves her limited ways to support her small family. She enters tries to train to become a nurse when she meets and marries a new man only to find herself in another bad circumstance.
This is a great story of a young woman would dreams of more for herself than a society allows for her. She continues to work through her struggles to reach her ambitions and to be able to provide for her family without having to rely on anyone.

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