Poster Girl: A Jane Benjamin Novel

Jane Benjamin joins FDR's Office of War Information to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl, but someone doesn't want women at work. During a contest to build a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns of a secret post-Pearl Harbor mission. When inspectors find flaws in the welding, the women welders are blamed and two poster girl candidates are killed. Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders before the murderer harms another girl.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2023
Publisher: She Writes Press

Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR's Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America's winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn't want those women at work.

During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover's secret post-Pearl Harbor mission—and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed.

Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders—before the murderer harms another girl and America's best chance of winning the war.

Weight: 352g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647425937