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Summary of Secrets of a Charmed Life 
by Susan Meissner | Includes Analysis

Summary of Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner | Includes Analysis

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Secrets of a Charmed Life is the story of how two young sisters survived World

War II in London.

In 2015, at Stow-on- the-Wold in the English countryside, Kendra Van Zant, a

history major, interviews ninety-three year old Isabel Mac Farland. Kendra quickly

realizes Isabel is not her subject’s real name, nor is she ninety-three. Isabel, a well-

known artist, tells Kendra the tale of two young girls living in London just before

the beginning, in the spring of 1940, of the strategic bombing campaign by the

Germans against London that became known as the Blitz. The story centers on

fifteen year old, Emmy, and seven year old, Julia.

Emmy and Julia’s mother, Anne, is a single mother working as a maid. She is able

to care well for them, but she is often out of the house. Emmy has to be the

responsible member of the household when it comes to caring for Julia…

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