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Overview
It's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret. She's head over heels in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy League. Not that she even has a chance—he'd never take a second look at a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking care of her faded beauty of a mother and following bulletins on the war in Europe. For Linda, though, the war will soon become all too real. Engulfing her nation and her life, it will offer opportunities she's never dreamed of. A chance to win the man she wants...a chance to find the love she deserves.
Made into the movie of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson, Shining Through is a novel of honor, sacrifice, passion, and humor. This is vintage Susan Isaacs, a tale of a spirited woman who wisecracks her way into heroism and history—and into your heart.
In 1940, irresistible heroine Linda Voss is secretly in love with her boss. How she wins and loses him—and takes New York by storm—is now brought to life in the Twentieth Century Fox major motion picture starring Oscar-winner Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, and John Gielgud.
Synopsis
It's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret. She's head over heels in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy League. Not that she even has a chance—he'd never take a second look at a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking care of her faded beauty of a mother and following bulletins on the war in Europe. For Linda, though, the war will soon become all too real. Engulfing her nation and her life, it will offer opportunities she's never dreamed of. A chance to win the man she wants...a chance to find the love she deserves.
Made into the movie of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson, Shining Through is a novel of honor, sacrifice, passion, and humor. This is vintage Susan Isaacs, a tale of a spirited woman who wisecracks her way into heroism and history—and into your heart.
New York Times Book Review
As close to a 1940s movie as a book can get. It's like the kind of big, exciting movie we liked best then, in which someone pretty much like us takes incredible risks for unimpeachable motives and wins just what we wanted.
Editorials
Anne Tolstoi Wallach
You've got to hand it to Susan Isaacs. Unlike a lot of best-selling authors, she doesn't write the same novel again and again. Instead, like her girl-next-door heroines, she takes risks, and her readers reap the rewards. . . . Shining Through rates cheers for taking us back to those movies where we watched, appalled, as the heroine went off with the wrong man when the right one was there all the time, where glamorous stars got to wear frumpy makeup for a few reels and where spies hid notes in the mouths of herrings. And Susan Isaacs rates cheers for reminding us that those movies had spine. -- New York TimesChicago Sun-Times
Totally captivating.As close to a 1940s movie as a book can get. It's like the kind of big, exciting movie we liked best then, in which someone pretty much like us takes incredible risks for unimpeachable motives and wins just what we wanted.
"Laced with heartbreak, drama and thrills...Marvelously readable."
Linda Voss is an irrestistible heroine...She's exactly the bright and resourceful heroine we all feel we could be.