Medium – Book About the Book – The sequel to ‘Dear Mrs Bird’, in this book we find Emmeline Lake, our heroine, keeping the home fires burning during WW2. She has retained her job at the ‘Woman’s Friend’ magazine, thanks to the lovely editor, Mr Collins, and has been tasked with finding ways to increaseContinue reading “2021 Book #58 – Yours Cheerfully”
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2021 Book #51 – The Volunteer
Medium – Book About the Book – Witold Pilecki is an underground operative working in Poland during the Nazi Occupation in 1940. During this time, to live in Poland was terrible, with those who were seen as intellectuals, as well as priests, homosexuals, the disabled and Jews, taken to concentration camps – of which oneContinue reading “2021 Book #51 – The Volunteer”
2021 Book #42 – The Pursuit of Love
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Linda Radford is the beautiful, daring and romantic daughter of a peer living in 1920s, 1930s and 1940s England. ‘Pursuit of Love’ is the story of her life and loves, told from the point of view of her cousin, Fanny, who also narrated the audiobook I listened toContinue reading “2021 Book #42 – The Pursuit of Love”
2021 Book #37 – The Women who Spied for Britain
Medium – Book About the Book – The author briefly discusses the lives of some of the most famous female spies of WW2 – women like Christine Granville, Odette Sansom, Violette Szabo and Noor Inyat Khan. The women are taken individually, and their lives discussed – from their births, to their education and childhood, relationships,Continue reading “2021 Book #37 – The Women who Spied for Britain”
2021 Book #1 – The Ghost Tree
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The third (and currently last) in the Betty Church series of books, ‘The Ghost Tree’ is split across two time frames – Betty’s childhood in 1914 and her ‘current’ time at the beginning of the second world war. Betty’s childhood is shaped by the loss of her bestContinue reading “2021 Book #1 – The Ghost Tree”
TBR Pile #22 – The Room of the Dead
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – The second in the Betty Church Mystery series, this time, Betty Church and her colleagues at Sackwater Station are dealing with the mundanities of life – missing slippers, dogs and other unexciting occurrences. But soon, the war comes to Sackwater, and a street is bombed, killing a wholeContinue reading “TBR Pile #22 – The Room of the Dead”
TBR Pile #20 – Orphan, Monster, Spy
Medium – Book About the Book – Sarah is a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jewish girl living in the heart of Nazi Germany. When trying to escape, her mother is killed at a roadblock and Sarah is left injured and lost, chased by dogs. She is taken in by Captain Jeremy Floyd, a spy for the BritishContinue reading “TBR Pile #20 – Orphan, Monster, Spy”
TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Set at the beginning of WW2, this book is the first in a series by M.R.C. Kasasian, who is also the author of the Gower Street Detectives books. Betty is a policewoman in her thirties, battling against the prejudice and misogyny rife in the police service. She sustainsContinue reading “TBR Pile #19 – Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire”
Book #48 – An Orphan’s Wish
Prompt – A bildungsroman (a coming of age tale – not necessarily for the main character in this instance, but definitely for one of the supporting characters!) Medium – Book About the Book – Set in WW2, the book tells the story of Lana Ashwin, a young teacher whose fiancee, Dickie, dies at sea. HerContinue reading “Book #48 – An Orphan’s Wish”
Book #40 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Prompt – A book about a book club Medium – Book About the Book – It is just after the end of the Second World War, and Juliet Ashton is a thirty-two year old writer living in London. She has writer’s block and is looking for her next topic for a book, after writing light-heartedContinue reading “Book #40 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
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