She could still count the number of glances they had exchanged, the first when she'd sat on the couch at the house where she was staying, so ashamed by the rejection at the station that she'd had to struggle to meet his gaze while he apologized on behalf of his brother and entire family.'Your brother cannot even apologize on his own behalf?' she asked.

They had not yet touched, not even a brush of hand or lip upon becoming husband and wife. Lily watched Nathan roll the plum in his hand and wondered what his brother had seen in her that made him turn away.Nathan picked up a knife and began scoring the skin of the plum into sections. It was his brother, Sol, she had been meant to marry, a man she had corresponded with but hadn't met, who had caught one glimpse of her as she disembarked at the station and decided he wouldn't have her. His name was Nathan and she had known him for a week. Her husband picked up a plum and rolled it in the palm of his hand. Lily and her husband sat on either end of the couch on which she assumed they were meant to consummate their marriage.In front of the couch was a table laid with fruit and hard-boiled eggs. There were no windows and no door, only a curtain beyond which the guests-almost none of whom she knew-washed down sponge cake and herring with shots of schnapps and vodka. In a small room off a banquet hall in Montreal, Lily Kramer sat in silence with her new husband. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Who is Lily and what happened to the young woman whose identity she stole? Why has she left and where did she go? It's up to the daughter Lily abandoned to find the answers to these questions, as she searches for the mother she may never find or truly know. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters when she disappears, leaving a new husband and a baby daughter with only a diary, a large uncut diamond – and a need to find the truth It is immediately clear that Lily is not who she claims to be. Out of pity, his brother Nathan decides to marry her instead, and pity turns into a deep―and doomed―love.

But, upon seeing her at the train station, Sol Kramer turns her down. In the wake of World War II, a young, enigmatic woman named Lily arrives in Montreal on her own, expecting to be married to a man she's never met. The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler is an unforgettable novel about a mysterious mail-order bride in the wake of WWII, whose sudden decision ripples through time to deeply impact the daughter she never knew