My Boyfriends' Dogs by Dandi Daley Mackall

At 460 pages, their story runs a wee bit long, but it’s nicely paced with letters interspersed between Frank and Helen’s POV narratives. I liked seeing how Frank and Helen grew into better, truer versions of themselves as the war wore on. The result is a sweet love story peopled by flawed but endearing characters at odds with circumstances far bigger than themselves. So I read that during WWII, the author - an accomplished, multi-multi-published storyteller - has been careful to create layers of conflict and motivation in order to craft her parents’ experience into a novel. My take: I admit, I cheated: After reading the first chapter, I flipped to the back to the book to see if the author had included a “Story Behind the Story” for what I was reading. Her YA novel, My Boyfriends’ Dogs, is now a Hallmark movie. Awards include the Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery, the Helen Keating Ott Award for Contributions to Children’s Literature Distinguished Alumni Award from Mizzou ALA Best Book Christian Children’s Book of the Year, Amelia Bloom, Mom’s Choice Awards. Watch the trailer below.Ībout the author: A professional writer for over 20 years, Dandi Daley Mackall has written dozens of articles for popular magazines and published around 500 books for children and adults alike, with sales of over 4 million.Ī frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, she lives in rural Ohio with her husband, three children, horses, dogs, & cats.

If they make it through the war, will their marriage survive?īased on the incredible true love story, With Love, Wherever You Are is an adult novel from beloved children’s author Dandi Daley Mackall. Surrounded by danger and desperately wounded patients, they soon find that only the war seems real―and their marriage more and more like a distant dream. are sent to the front lines of Europe with only letters to connect them for months at a time. Īfter a whirlwind romance and wedding, Helen Eberhart Daley, an army nurse, and Lieutenant Frank Daley, M.D. With Love, Wherever You Are by Dandi Daley MackallĪbout the book: (from the publisher) Everyone knows that war romances never last.

My Boyfriends' Dogs by Dandi Daley Mackall