A Light In The Window cover

A Light In The Window

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

INNOCENT LOVE Swept up in a whirlwind courtship and a hasty wedding to handsome Court Wayne, Ricky felt nothing could possibly go wrong for two people so much in love. But then Court was shipped off to fight the Germans, and the powerful Wayne family insisted she come to live with them... SINISTER PREY A small-town girl, Ricky did not feel at home in the Waynes' posh Fifth Avenue establishment, or at ease with Court's coldly sophisticated mother. She sensed with a chill of foreboding the contempt and bitter resentment that ran just beneath the polished surface of their lives. But she could not know the depths of their hatred, or the lengths to which they would go to break up her marriage - even if it meant destroying her in the process...

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?