TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graham, Laurie,
TI  - The early birds
T2  - Future Homemakers of America
SN  - 1784297925
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London 
PB  - Quercus Publishing
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Military spouses
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - United States
KW  - Older people
KW  - Grief
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Married women
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  -  "Picking up ten years after The Future Homemakers of 
       America left off, The Early Birds follows Peggy, Kath, 
       Gayle, Lois and Audrey through the turn of the twenty-
       first century. The women are now in their seventies and 
       time is rendering its Accounts Payable: arthritis, 
       cataracts, forgetfulness and departures. From the dawn of 
       the new millennium - at which the anti-Christ 
       unaccountably fails to appear, despite evangelist Gayle's 
       predictions - Peggy soldiers on through new upheavals, 
       including her ex-husband Vern's Alzheimer's diagnosis, and
       the death of one of her live-in friends. Then, on a clear 
       blue day in September 2001, the US Air Force scrambles too
       late to save America from four hostile attacks, and for 
       the first time Peggy wonders if being a USAF wife - the 
       constant worry about your husband, the faraway postings in
       Alaska, Norfolk, Siberia, the lack of control over your 
       own life - was worth it."--Publisher description.
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