![]() ![]() When she gives birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter called Ruth, things do not get any easier, and one day, under the pretense of going out to buy a quart of milk, she never returns. Sol’s younger brother, Nathan, marries her instead, and the couple set up home with Nathan’s widowed mother, Bella.īut Lily, presumably grief-stricken by the loss of so many family members in the Second World War, cannot really function properly and holes herself up in her room, too miserable and depressed to talk to anyone. But when Sol Kramer sees her step off the train, he rejects her as “damaged goods”.Īll, however, is not lost. ![]() She hopes to start a new life in Canada, where she is due to marry a man with whom she has been corresponding for some time. ![]() Lily Azerov is Polish and has no living relatives. Nancy Richler’s The Imposter Bride is set in post-war Montreal and tells the story of a Jewish refugee and the daughter she abandoned a few months after her birth. Fiction – hardcover Harper Collins Canada 352 pages 2012. ![]()
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