The Blessing

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Author: Nancy Mitford

After the war, English rose Grace joins her dashing aristocratic husband, Charles-Edouard, in France. She is out of her depth among the elegant French women and when she discovers her husband’s tendency to lust after pretty girls, it seems that all is over – until her son Sigismund steps in…..Read More

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