Secrets of a Charmed Life Summary
Susan Meissner

Secrets of a Charmed Life Overview

Sisters Emmy and Julia Downtree are separated during the first night of World War II’s London Blitz in the novel “Secrets of a Charmed Life” by Susan Meissner. They are reunited twenty years later with the help of the bride's box, a box in which Emmy kept the sketches she made of wedding dresses, the same box that was an important aspect of the girls’ separation. The novel discusses themes like history, the consequences of the choices one makes, and the importance of one’s identity.