Escape established Ethel Vance as a writer of dramatic fiction. Her following book, Reprisal, had the same suspense and understanding of European peoples.

Winter Meeting bears no resemblance to these two, but is a modern American love story which deals with different kinds of love. The problems it poses have a universal quality, and Miss Vance deals with them with sympathy and understanding.

It is the story of a few days in the lives of a man. Congressional Medal hero of submarine warfare, and a remarkable and lovely woman, a New England writer whose life has been marred by a tragic childhood. In their "winter meeting,” they find themselves. Novak, the young hero whose faith was shattered by the aftermath of the very act that proved his courage, discovers it again. Susan, the woman, is finally released from the inhibitions that bound her.

Ethel Vance, under her own name, Grace Zaring Stone, has also written The Bitter Tea of General Yen.

This special edition of WINTER MEETING by Ethel Vance has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Little, Brown and Company. Inc., Boston.

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