Kiss The Girls Goodbye
By (Author) Lilian Harry
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
1st March 2002
24th December 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
Paperback
432
Width 115mm, Height 177mm, Spine 29mm
230g
'The Corner House was making a good job of New Year's Eve, despite the bad weather, the blackout, the looming threat of rationing ...The Nippies were dashing to and fro with their big silver trays and the war seemed suddenly far away.' So begins 1940 for the Nippies at the Lyons Corner House at Marble Arch. But despite putting on a cheerful face for the customers, the war is taking its toll on all the waitresses: for Maggie, married just a few hours, and then parted from her husband; for Jo and Phyl, anxiously waiting for news from their fiances; for Etty, and the constant jibes she faces about her background; and even for Irene, who begins a new friendship which is not all it appears to be...
Lilian Harry grew up in Portsmouth. She has a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor.