“A beautifully written story, richly developed characters and sense of place and time in history.” – Story Circle Network Pittsburgh, PA. 1941. The world is plunging headlong into WWII, and Flossie’s beau has been drafted. He wants to get engaged, and she reluctantly agrees. But when he’s away at Pearl Harbor, she falls in love with another man. If she only had a mother to advise her! All Flossie has to go on is a fading photo of a young woman in profile and a name: Florence, like her own. Mahaffey, PA, 1910: Talented, beautiful and flirtatious, Florence wants to be a concert pianist, and she can’t help attracting men. But a shadow falls across her young life, its first sign a seemingly innocuous cough. Her search for health takes her and the reader across the panorama of a vanished America, and eventually to a marriage she never dreamed of… "A beautifully written story, richly developed characters and sense of place and time in history." - Mary Jo Doig, author of Patchwork: A Memoir of Love and Loss ". . . a deceptively simple tale enriched by the subtle complexity of its telling, weaving together the lives of a mother and daughter separated by time." - Mary Chaffee, author of Chile Con Carnage "Delightful" - Mary Fillmore, author of An Address in Amsterdam "A gorgeous example of family history as story, Pennsylvania Love Song is a perfect tribute to the subtle yet undeniable connections between mothers and daughters and the quiet influence of family legacy." - Sarah Angleton, author of Paradise on the Pike "A beautifully written story, richly developed characters and sense of place and time in history." - Story Circle Network "Pittsburgh, PA. 1941. The world is plunging headlong into WWII, and Flossie's beau has been drafted. He wants to get engaged, and she reluctantly agrees. But when he's away at Pearl Harbor, she falls in love with another man. If she only had a mother to advise her! All Flossie has to go on is a fading photo of a young woman in profile and a name: Florence, like her own. Mahaffey, PA, 1910: Talented, beautiful and flirtatious, Florence wants to be a concert pianist, and she can't help attracting men. But a shadow falls across her young life, its first sign a seemingly innocuous cough. Her search for health takes her and the reader across the panorama of a vanished America, and eventually to a marriage she never dreamed of..." Nancy Hayes Kilgore, a Pennsylvania native, is the author of three other novels, BITTER MAGIC (Milford House Press, 2021, ) WILD MOUNTAIN (Green Writers Press, 2017) and SEA LEVEL (RCWMS, 2011). Her writing has won the Vermont Writers Prize and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She has published in literary magazines and on Vermont Public Radio. Nancy is a graduate of the Radcliffe Writing Seminars; she holds a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctorate in Pastoral Psychotherapy. Dr.Kilgore is a psychotherapist, former parish pastor, and leads workshops on creative writing and spirituality. She lives with her husband, the artist Jess Kilgore, in Vermont.