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Martha Hall Kelly

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in Milton, Massachusetts, The United States

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Martha is still pinching herself after her debut novel LILAC GIRLS, about socialite Caroline Ferriday and her fight to help a group of concentration camp survivors, became an Instant NY Times bestseller in 2016 and went on to sell over two million copies. Once the paperback stayed on the NYT list for 54 weeks, and became published in fifty countries she wrote three more novels: LOST ROSES about Caroline's mother, SUNFLOWER SISTERS about her great grandmother, and THE GOLDEN DOVES about two best friends who unite to find a missing Nazi doctor. Martha's next book, which arrives summer 2025, is THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD BEACH AND BOOK CLUB about two sisters who turn the tide of the war with the help of their book club. Martha grew up in Massachuse ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 466,048 ratings · 37,646 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 336,550 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Roses (Woolsey-Ferriday, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 59,550 ratings — published 2019 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sunflower Sisters (Woolsey-Ferriday, #3) 4.26 avg rating — 31,023 ratings — published 2021 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Doves 4.18 avg rating — 18,010 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,827 ratings — published 2025 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naomi's Gift (A Point in Time, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 3,925 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Munich Cowboys Cheerleaders by Martha Hall Kelly (Goodreads Author), Kathy Murray, Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Narrator) 3.66 avg rating — 144 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woolsey-Ferriday 3 Book Set by Martha Hall Kelly: Sunflower Sisters, Lost Roses, Lilac Girls 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pack El poder de las mujeres para cambiar la historia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le club de lecture de Martha's Vineyard by Martha Hall Kelly (Goodreads Author), Laura Bourgeois (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How Martha’s Vineyard Prepared Soldiers for Normandy

Planes roared overhead, dropping paratroopers along the dunes behind the beach to support the ground forces and the medical units swarming in with supplies. Soon they would be doing it for real on another beach somewhere, perhaps in North Africa or along France’s vast coastline, having practiced on our beach. Our boys.

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Martha Kelly answered Breezi's question: Hi Martha! This isn't necessarily a question, but I wanted to tell you how much I adore your books! No matter what else I have read hasn't compared to how much I relate to each of the women's stories you write about. They are so authentically real and relatable and I hope to read more of your work if there are more books to come out? :) Wow, Breezi--that made my day. Thank you! And yes, my next book comes out this summer, May 27th--The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club. It was inspired by my mother's life growing up on Martha's Vineyard. I hope you enjoy it!
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“After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.”
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“retrouvailles, another one of those words that do not translate into English, which means “the happiness of meeting someone you love again after a long time.”
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

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“If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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