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List view record 761: Women in warList view anchor tag for record 761: Women in war
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Women in war

Lane, Lizzie2023
Books
1939 - India. When headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party. Her father, local official, Roland Fr...
[5 copies, 4 available]
List view record 762: The wonder of it allList view anchor tag for record 762: The wonder of it all
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The wonder of it all

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-2023
Books
James Falconer has risen from being a barrow boy on a London market to wealthy businessman. But not everything in his life has been as successful as his retail empire. Having lost his wife - and now estranged from his only child - he volunteers to fight in the Great War. And when he is gravely wo...
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The wonder of it all

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-2024
Books
James Falconer has risen from being a barrow boy on a London market to wealthy businessman. But not everything in his life has been as successful as his retail empire. Having lost his wife - and now estranged from his only child - he volunteers to fight in the Great War. And when he is gravely wo...
List view record 764: The Woolworths girl's promiseList view anchor tag for record 764: The Woolworths girl's promise
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The Woolworths girl's promise

Everest, Elaine2023
Books
After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parent's roof she is taken in by Charli...
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The Woolworths Girl's promise

Everest, Elaine2023
Books
After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parent's roof she is taken in by Charli...
List view record 766: The Woolworths Saturday girlsList view anchor tag for record 766: The Woolworths Saturday girls
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The Woolworths Saturday girls

Everest, Elaine2022
eBook
1950. The Second World War is over and life has moved on for the Woolworth girls, Sarah, Maisie and Freda. In a new world the Woolworth women have high expectations of their daughters, wanting them to seize opportunities they didn't have themselves. Ready to take on Saturday jobs at Woolworths, b...
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The Woolworths Saturday girls

Everest, Elaine2022
Books
1950. The Second World War is over and life has moved on for the Woolworth girls, Sarah, Maisie and Freda. In a new world the Woolworth women have high expectations of their daughters, wanting them to seize opportunities they didn't have themselves. Ready to take on Saturday jobs at Woolworths, b...
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The Woolworths Saturday girls

Everest, Elaine2022
Books
1950. The Second World War is over and life has moved on for the Woolworth girls, Sarah, Maisie and Freda. In a new world the Woolworth women have high expectations of their daughters, wanting them to seize opportunities they didn't have themselves. Ready to take on Saturday jobs at Woolworths, b...
List view record 769: Workhouse girlList view anchor tag for record 769: Workhouse girl
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Workhouse girl

Green, Holly (Historical fiction writer)2020
Books
Can she escape her past? Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow workhouse. She now has a coveted position in the kitchens at Freeman's Department store in Liverpool and even the prospect of advancement. For Patty has always enjoyed baking and her flair for it...
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Yanto's summer

Pickernell, Ray2015
Books
A tale of post-war life in rural England, for fans of Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. For fans of Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. A spectacular evocation of a bygone age, Yanto's Summer is set in post-World War II Gloucestershire. Yanto, invalided out of the Army towards the end of the war, enjoy...
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