Across a Broken Shore

The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina "Willa" MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It's 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Irish-Catholic family is counting on her to take her vows--but Willa's found another calling. Each day she sneaks away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco's Richmond District. Keeping secrets from her family only becomes more complicated when Willa agrees to help the doctor at a field hospital near the new bridge being built over the Golden Gate. Willa thinks she can handle her new chaotic life, but as she draws closer to a dashing young ironworker and risks grow at the bridge, she discovers that hiding from what she truly wants may be her biggest lie of all.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Flux
Published: 11/05/2019
ISBN: 9781635830422
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019
School Library Journal 10/25/2019 pg. 1
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 52
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2019 - Recommended - Better Than Most