Wartime for the Shop Girls

During World War II, Lily Collins works as a sales junior at Marlows department store, facing shortages of staff and goods. She and her friends, Gladys and Beryl, need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands, and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. When Lily's favorite brother comes home on leave, secrets are revealed that test her community, family, and friends.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 23 January 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

War brings changes three friends could never foresee.
‘Highly recommended Anna Jacobs ‘A warm domestic drama Peoples Friend.
Its 1942, and as shortages of staff – and goods – begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlows department store.
Bombs are still falling, and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands, and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless.
Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favorite brother comes home on leave. Somehow, she must keep smiling through.
Community, family, and friends rally round as her home town – and the whole country – is tested once again.

Weight: 272g
Dimension: 176 x 130 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008298692