All The Nice Girls
$65.20
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2010
Summary
It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy s Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover in the First World War, believes the idea will broaden the horizons of her girls, especially Polly and Jen, bright sixth formers eager to live and love despite it all.
All is as it should be in the line of duty until Captain Josh Per…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085316 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085317 |
| Author: | Joan Bakewell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 211mm x 25mm |
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A poignant and pleasurable novel .
SUNDAY TIMES Penny Perrick Bakewell delivers a warm, good humoured story of wartime relationships and a thrilling account of life and death on the convoys GUARDIAN Rachel Hore Marvellously exciting, heartbreaking, gruelling and an unexpectedly muscular and masculine treat in the middle of what is essentially a wistful romance … the outcome is poignant, romantic, deeply satisfying DAILY EXPRESS Jennifer Selway A beautifully evocative novel, full of romance, tragedy and the pull of family bonds .SUNDAY EXPRESS Jane Clinton 4 stars A strong, romantic plot and believable well-realised characters … Bakewell for the Booker READERS DIGEST A N Wilson Bakewell conjures up a cracking wartime atmosphere DAILY MAIL Helen Brown It is formidably researched and evokes real atmosphere SAGA magazine Emma Soames A well-crafted romantic yarn … an absorbing human tale MAIL ON SUNDAY Max Davidson A fascinating first novel WATERSTONE S BOOKS QUARTERLY Lindsey Russell Poignant and moving … Full of telling detail, love and longing, and all the pleasures of a black and white movie on a Sunday afternoon NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE Linda Leatherbarrow Well written and imbued with an air of authenticity LONDON PAPER Lottie MoggachAbout The Author
Joan Bakewell
A prominent figure in TV and the arts in Britain, Joan Bakewell has been a broadcaster for over forty years, a print journalist for over twenty years, and has published her autobiography, The Centre of the Bed. ALL THE NICE GIRLS is her first novel. She was made Dame in 2008.
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