The Glory Girls by June Gadsby
The novel opens in 1939, where Mary West, a young girl from the North East of England, finds herself unemployed and desperately in need of a new challenge and some excitement. When a job at the Pensions War Office fails to fulfill those criteria, she decides to follow her childhood friend Anne Beasley’s lead and join the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, also known as the FANYs, and thus do her bit for the war effort where she hopes to forget about the man she has fallen passionately in love with, Captain Alex Craig, the one man whom she cannot have for he is already married to another woman.
But even though Mary – alongside her two friends Iris and Effie – has been plunged into a world of danger, betrayal and tragedy, Alex is never far from her thoughts. But things for Mary are about to get a whole lot more complicated for when she gets promoted to Special Operations Executive and is sent to Occupied France behind enemy lines to save the lives of a group of men living in a safe house under Nazi threat Mary, who has had very little training, has to fulfill this onerous task by herself with no help or guidance as her only contact in France has been murdered by the Nazis.
But Mary is determined that she is not going to let the enemy win, but will her courage and determination be enough?
Take the phone off the hook, put your feet up and get ready to lose yourself in this wonderful saga laced with plenty of intrigue, passion and danger! June Gadsby is a terrific storyteller who creates characters which leap off the pages and which you will not be able to resist taking to your heart.
Poignant, witty, emotional and absolutely unputdownable, you’ll devour The Glory Girls in a single sitting – I know I did!
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Genre: historical ISBN: 9780709082444 Page Count: 224 Pages Price: $ 18.99 Reviewer: Julie |
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Sweet Star Rating: 4.5 Stars Author's Website: http://www.junegadsby.co.uk/ |
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