Wartime for the Shop Girls (The Shop Girls, Book 2)

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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 favourite 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.

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Acclaim for Joanna Toye:

Captivatinga triumphant debut novel Womens Weekly

A warm domestic drama Peoples Friend

Highly recommended an engrossing story with a charmingly forthright heroine Anna Jacobs

'Jo writes with a sure hand and a light toucha real page-turner with a spirited heroine.' Veronica Henry

Cheerful and upliftingI thoroughly enjoyed it Katie Fforde

Author Bio

Joanna Toye joined the production team of The Archers after reading English at Cambridge University, and became a scriptwriter for the programme for over twenty years. She has also written a number of spin-off books about the long-running radio drama. On television she has written for Crossroads, Family Affairs, Doctors and EastEnders. A Store at War is her first novel.