This book was the winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
In my opinion, this young adult novel is for mature young adults.
Here's the synopsis.
When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him...until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.
As she begins to realize that almost everything she believed to be truth was really a lie, Evie must get to the heart of the deceptions and choose between her loyalty to her parents and her feelings for the man she loves. Someone will have to be betrayed. The question is ... who?
This is a coming-of-age story set in 1947. Remember how popular smoking was back then? Even chocolate cigarettes were in. This has glamor, murder and mystery, with most of the setting in Florida.
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