WWII
The Blitz Sisters
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A very enjoyable story featuring three sisters during World War Two and its immediate aftermath. Each of the chronological sections focuses on one ...Read Review
The Matchbox Girl
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Jolly’s novels feature wonderful, innovative use of language (Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile is written in unstructured verse). The Matchbox Girl is no ...Read Review
Flames of the Cherry Tree
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1940. Aafreen Khan lives in the home of her beloved Dadaji (grandfather), a doctor, in the Kashmir Valley. She is loved and sheltered and ...Read Review
A Song in the Dark
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Engaging historical fiction unfolds as the threat of war again overshadows Europe and the world. Chaisley Frappier, a young piano prodigy blinded on ...Read Review
The Spitfire Girl’s Secret
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The book begins in 1935 just after sixteen-year-old Bella Roberts and her family have returned to Strawbridge in the UK, after spending several years ...Read Review
The Winter Ball
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The Winter Ball covers five days in December 1942 leading up to the Buckingham Hotel’s annual luxurious winter ball. It opens with Maynard ...Read Review
Winter Wishes for the East End Girls
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Alice Starling lost her husband at Dunkirk two years before and, with no sympathy or support from her mother-in-law, contributes to the defense ...Read Review
A Stocking Full of Spies: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 3
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It is the winter of 1941. Hazel, elder sister of May Wong, has been seconded from the Ministry of Unladylike Activity to Bletchley Park, ...Read Review
The Ghost House
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I don’t usually relate to the paranormal, but a good book is a good book, and this is one of those ghost ...Read Review
From Malice to Ashes: Forest of No Mercy (Malice and Mercy Series)
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This is a fast-moving historical novel set largely in Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden during the cataclysmic summer of 1941. Through the intertwined journeys of ...Read Review
