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The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis is a historical fiction novel that alternates between Paris in the early 1940s and Boston in the mid-1980s, intertwining the lives of Soline Roussel, a Parisian dressmaker, and Rory Grant, an aspiring gallery owner. Through dual timelines and alternating perspectives, the novel explores themes of magic, emotions, grief, loss, restoration, community, and healing as Soline and Rory's stories converge. This book discusses anti-gay bias, antisemitism, emotional abuse, and child death.