The Wartime Bookshop: The first in a heart-warming WWII saga series about community and friendship, from the bestselling author
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The first in a brand-new nostalgic and heart-warming WWII series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest.
Alice is nursing an injured hand and a broken heart when she moves to the village of Churchwood at the start of WWII. She is desperate to be independent but worries that her injuries will make that impossible.
Kate lives with her family on Brimbles Farm, where her father and brothers treat her no better than a servant. With no mother or sisters, and shunned by the locals, Kate longs for a friend of her own.
Naomi is looked up to for owning the best house in the village. But privately, she carries the hurts of childlessness, a husband who has little time for her and some deep-rooted insecurities.
With war raging overseas, and difficulties to overcome at home, friendship is needed now more than ever. Can the war effort and a shared love of books bring these women - and the community of Churchwood - together?
© Lesley Eames 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Lesley is an author of historical sagas with settings ranging from the early 1900s through the Roaring 20s to World War II. Her first series was the Wartime Bookshop. Her new series is The Wartime Newspaper Girls.
Lesley is thrilled to have enjoyed success in competitions as varied as crime writing to writing for children. She is particularly honoured to have won the Festival of Romance’s New Talent Award, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Elizabeth Goudge Trophy and to have been shortlisted in the UK Romantic Novel Awards (RONAs) three times.
Lesley is also a creative-writing tutor and mentor.
