The Saturday Evening Girls Club by Jane Healey

Healey also is a freelance journalist and consultant. She relied on diaries, letters, and other records left by real-life Club mobile Service girls to create this tale. Healey continues to bring readers lesser-known stories of women in American history. Determined to learn her fiancé’s fate, Fiona leaves Boston to volunteer overseas as a Red Cross Club mobile girl, recruiting her two best friends to come along.

In 1944, Boston native Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out until her fiancé is reported missing after being shot down in Germany. Her new release, “The Beantown Girls,” is a novel of love, courage, and danger. Based on the true story of a group of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in Boston’s North End at the turn of the 20th century, the book was an Amazon bestseller.

Her passion for historical fiction became her new career when her debut novel, “The Saturday Evening Girls Club,” was published in 2017.

Healey left a career in high tech to become a freelance writer. Wednesday, March 13, at the Canton Public Library during a special Author’s Night. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they'll draw strength-and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.Author Jane Healey with discuss her second work of historical fiction, “The Beantown Girls,” at 7 p.m. The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future.Īmbitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. In Boston's North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind-but never one another.įor four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy.

The Saturday Evening Girls Club by Jane Healey