Ursula Parrott
“Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective, Parrott examined the fraying social fabric in the aftermath of World War I, the final vestiges of a Victorian era in which the place of a woman was defined almost exclusively in reference to men: fathers, husbands, ex-husbands, lovers. In the pre-war world to be a woman was to inhabit a role; the essence of the role was duty. But in the 1920s to be a woman was to find oneself with no specific role and to confront a radically altered landscape in which the confining security of the past could no longer be taken for granted.” –Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
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The 1930 follow-up to the scandalous bestseller Ex-Wife, Ursula Parrott’s Strangers May Kiss is a moving melodrama of a young woman who arrives in Jazz Age New York, seeking adventure and determined to avoid marriage, and enters into a long-term affair with a brilliant newspaper reporter.
Navy Nurse is the romance of an avowed pacifist nurse and a duty-bound Navy commander on a hospital ship in the Atlantic during World War II.
In this 1943 romantic adventure by the author of the acclaimed novel Ex-Wife, two pilots, a man and a woman, are forced to land in a remote, snowbound forest, where for months they battle cold, storms, hunger, and the moral dilemma of their mutual attraction while engaged to two others.