All waiting is long is a stand alone book it takes place in the early 1930s and follows the difficult path of two sisters who try to hide an out of wedlock pregnancy ms taylor does a great job of keeping all the characters separate and intersperses a few chapters from the voice of this is a five star book as far as storytelling goes but its a little light on substance so its a four from me. All waiting is long tells the stories of the morgan sisters a study in contrasts in 1930 twenty five year old violet travels with her sixteen year old sister lily from scranton pennsylvania to the good shepherd infant asylum in philadelphia so lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. All waiting is long tells the stories of the morgan sisters a study in contrasts in 1930 twenty five year old violet travels with her sixteen year old sister lily from scranton pennsylvania to the good shepherd infant asylum in philadelphia so lily can deliver her illegit imate child in secret. About all waiting is long all waiting is long tells the stories of the morgan sisters a study in contrasts in 1930 twenty five year old violet travels with her sixteen year old sister lily from scranton pa to the good shepherd infant asylum in philadelphia so lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. All waiting is long tells the stories of the morgan sisters a study in contrasts in 1930 twenty five year old violet travels with her sixteen year old sister lily from scranton pennsylvania to the good shepherd infant asylum in philadelphia so lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret in doing so violet jeopardizes her engagement to her longtime sweetheart stanley adamski