soil that many may not have been aware of during the wartime. There was also the exploration of POW camps on U.S. One of the key interests that readers may have with the story was how Austin was also mentioned in the story, and how many ballrooms no longer exist today. The Surf Ballroom is also the place where Ellsworth’s parents met, and was a source of inspiration for the story. Loretta Ellsworths Stars Over Clear Lake is a moving story of forbidden love, lost love. The plot moves between the 1940s and the present day, and touches on love and loss. Adult Fiction - Public Shelving, Fiction Ellsworth, On Shelf. She is romantically involved with the town’s most popular boy, Scotty, and then finds herself intrigued by a German POW named Jens, who worked on her family’s farm as part of a crew from a nearby prison camp. Yet it is the focus on love, loss, and life choices that will resonate most with the reader.The story takes place in Clear Lake, Iowa, and is set in the Surf Ballroom during the 1940s, where boys spent their last nights before shipping off to war, and where Lorraine Kindred, the main protagonist, gets swept away in a star-crossed romance, according to Holly Johnson, executive director of the Hormel Historic Home. Ellsworth’s depiction of 1940s life in a rural Iowa town, complicated by the tragedies of World War II, vividly brings this novel to life. Lorraine’s most difficult choice was between Scotty, the man she grew up with and her mother’s choice for her, and Jens, the love of her life. Set during the 1940s and the present and inspired by a real-life ballroom, Loretta Ellsworth’s Stars Over Clear Lake is a moving story of forbidden love, lost love, everlasting loveand self love. Lorraine eventually falls in love with one of those men, Jens. Along the way, she’ll rediscover herself, her passion, and her capacity for resilience. She has four children and six grandchildren and lives in Lakeville, MN. Ellsworth gives the reader a view of the original Surf Ballroom, and the time when Lorraine’s father hired German POWs from a nearby POW camp to help with their Iowa farm. she is the award-winning author of several young adult novels. And she evades the questions her son-in-law Harry asks her about the fire and what caused it.
Lorraine recalls when she once went to the Surf Ballroom before the original burned down. Lorraine Kindred laments her difficult relationship with her adult daughter, Daisy, as she copes with missing her recently deceased husband, Sid. Ellsworth alternates between 2007 and the 1940s, as one Iowa woman’s journey into the past helps her reconcile her present.
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