Kathleen Norris

Books by Kathleen Norris

Wife For Sale

Wife For Sale

P. F. Collier & Son, 1933

[dj from A. L. Burt edition, listed on Amazon] [description from leaf before title page in my 1933 A L Burt copy]

Life looked bleak to pretty Norah Oliver with her widowed mother seriously ill, her brother and herself out of jobs -- only her sister's meager salary keeping the little family from starvation.

If only David would marry her, how grand things would be -- but David had been strangely indifferent of late.

And then Norah hit upon the fantastic idea of advertising herself as a "wife for sale"...

Life changed quickly to an exciting whirl when Barry Dunsmuir answered her ad.

Norah's daring adventure makes a fascinating story of love and its strange ways with a girl and the two men who worshiped her.

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