About My Mother’s Friend:
Winner of the 2023 Global Book Awards Gold Medal
Highly Recommended 5-Star Award of Excellence from the Historical Fiction Company
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The year is 1944…
Seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist who lives in Algona, Iowa, is stressing about her senior year of high school while caring for her family after her mother’s death. When her pastor father takes her to visit the nearby prisoner of war camp, the last thing she expects to find is friendship with a German POW who shares her passion for music.
After she is recruited as the accompanist for the POW choir, Phee begins to spend more time with her new friend who she initially considers “the enemy.” But their friendship strengthens, and inevitably, they fall in love, a forbidden love. But Phee is a pastor’s daughter, and her conflicting feelings torment her. Can she set aside her conditioned beliefs and follow her heart? And if she does, what will be the result?
Their love deepens, but as the moment draws near for the POWs to leave Camp Algona after the war ends, Phee has a life-altering decision to make.
Read now for a moving historical fiction story set in small-town America during World War II. Young readers and adults alike will fall for this first-love story featuring age-gap angst, thrilling suspenseful nights, and impossible life decisions. My Mother’s Friend contains both a past storyline and a more contemporary one to tell its timeless story.
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Author Bio:
Sally Jameson Bond is the author of My Mother’s Son, the eagerly awaited sequel to her award-winning first novel, My Mother’s Friend. While her initial goal was to encourage, entertain, and educate teens and young adults with her stories, her readers (dare she say fans?) include a diverse group of people of all ages. The daughter of a World War II and Korean War veteran father and an artistic mother who loved to write, Sally discovered one of her passions—writing historical fiction—rather late in life. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Iowa and has performed as a trombonist across the U.S. When she’s not writing and promoting and corresponding and signing and touring and attending conferences, she enjoys traveling in Europe and taking long walks along the battlefield trail in southwest Virginia with her husband Joe and their rescue dog Bart. After a thirty-year career in academic libraries, Sally retired in 2017.