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Gretchen Berg

Biography

Gretchen Berg

Gretchen Berg was born on the East Coast, raised in the Midwest and spent a number of years in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught English in South Korea and in Northern Iraq, and has traveled to all the other continents. A graduate of Iowa State University, she lives in Chicago, Illinois. THE OPERATOR is her first novel.

Gretchen Berg

Books by Gretchen Berg

The Operator
by Gretchen Berg - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton. Vivian and the other women who work at Bell on East Liberty Street connect lines and lives. They aren’t supposed to listen in on conversations, but they do, and they all have opinions on what they hear. One cold December night, Vivian listens in on a call between that snob Betty Miller and someone whose voice she can’t quite place, and hears something shocking. Betty’s mystery friend has news that, if true, will shatter Vivian’s tidy life in Wooster, humiliating her and making her the laughingstock of the town. Vivian is going to get to the bottom of that rumor. She wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be.