TY - BOOK AU - Freedman,Benedict AU - Freedman,Nancy Mars TI - Mrs. Mike: The search for Joyful SN - 9780425183335 (2002 Berkley hardcover ed.) PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Berkley Books KW - Flannigan, Katherine Mary KW - Royal Canadian Mounted Police KW - Fiction KW - Irish American women KW - Police KW - Canada KW - Wilderness areas KW - Cree women KW - Nursing students KW - Canadian fiction KW - lcsh N2 - A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life-and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon; When her dear friend O Be Joyful died in a flu epidemic, Mrs. Mike Flannigan opened her home-and her heart-to her orphaned child, Kathy Forquet. But as the terrors of World War II drew closer, Kathy decided to leave this familiar home to do her part and become a nurse. Out in the world, her life fills with drama and excitement as she meets two very different men. And as she learns about herself and the world beyond her hometown, she searches for the elusive prize she has sought for so long: the meaning of true joy ER -