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The shipyard girls on the home front / Nancy Revell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Shipyard girls ; 10Publisher: London, England : Arrow Books, 2021Description: 396 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781787464285
  • 1787464288
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92 23
Summary: "December 1943. As the war effort gathers steam in Europe, it's all hands on deck on the home front.Gloria is over the moon to be reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their mother's divorce and new half-sister.Rosie's squad of welders must work gruelling hours in the yard as they prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the while Rosie herself waits anxiously for news of her husband Peter, who is carrying out dangerous work as an undercover operative in France.Meanwhile welder Dorothy has a feeling that her beau Toby is planning to pop the question when he's next on leave. But it seems that her head is being turned by someone closer to home... It will take great strength and friendship if the shipyard girls are to weather the storms to come."-- Publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection (New) Fiction Collection (New) REVE Checked out 09/10/2023 T00822357
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

THE TENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES

'Emotional and gripping' Take a Break

December 1943

As the war effort gathers steam in Europe, it's all hands on deck on the home front.

Gloria is over the moon to be reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their mother's divorce and new half-sister.

Rosie's squad of welders must work gruelling hours in the yard as they prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the while Rosie herself waits anxiously for news of her husband Peter, who is carrying out dangerous work as an undercover operative in France.

Meanwhile welder Dorothy has a feeling that her beau Toby is planning to pop the question when he's next on leave. But it seems that her head is being turned by someone closer to home...

It will take great strength and friendship if the shipyard girls are to weather the storms to come.

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Praise for Nancy Revell

'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!' Northern Echo

'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Includes excerpt from The shipyard girls under the mistletoe.

"December 1943. As the war effort gathers steam in Europe, it's all hands on deck on the home front.Gloria is over the moon to be reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their mother's divorce and new half-sister.Rosie's squad of welders must work gruelling hours in the yard as they prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the while Rosie herself waits anxiously for news of her husband Peter, who is carrying out dangerous work as an undercover operative in France.Meanwhile welder Dorothy has a feeling that her beau Toby is planning to pop the question when he's next on leave. But it seems that her head is being turned by someone closer to home... It will take great strength and friendship if the shipyard girls are to weather the storms to come."-- Publisher.

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