The Sunshine Girls: A Novel
Dec 2022 · Harlequin
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“A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the year’s best.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil
Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story.
1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don’t have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family’s disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women.
Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the women’s paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering through love, marriage, failure, and death, from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.
Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever...
Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story.
1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don’t have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family’s disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women.
Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the women’s paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering through love, marriage, failure, and death, from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.
Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever...
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Eileen Aberman-Wells
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07 December 2022
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader is a beautiful and heartwarming novel about all kinds of relationships: friendships, romantic relationships, and familial relationships. A story with drama, love, friendship, family, and secrets that draws you in from the start, holding you hostage until the last page is sadly turned. BettyKay, Kitty, and Jenny meet at nursing school in a small town in Iowa during the late 1960s. There was a lot of unrest, as the Vietnam Nam War was occurring, women had few ri
Dar Good
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18 April 2023
I can’t even express how utterly amazing this story was, how it drew me in, how I fell in love with these characters, how I felt every emotion along with them. This story is told in the current and the past, with us getting to see it from different character viewpoints. It is a story about love, sisterhood, growing up, making choices, and finding peace. I cried a lot in this book, I teared up more often then not, but it didn’t make me sad, it felt hopeful
About the author
MOLLY FADER is the award-winning author of more than 40 romance novels under the pennames Molly O'Keefe and M. O'Keefe. She grew up outside of Chicago and now lives in Toronto. The McAvoy Sisters Book of Secrets is her first women's fiction novel.
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