All the nice girls
by Joan Bakewell | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1844086003 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1844086003 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by YorkCollegeLC from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, October 30, 2011
"All the Nice Girls" captures the danger and excitement of wartime Britain with a sweeping story of heroic deeds and painful separations, illicit love and battles at sea, and above all, of the poignancy of longing and loss. It is a big, wonderful, romantic wartime novel. 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, who lost her lover in the First World War, believes the project will broaden the horizons of her girls, especially Polly and Jen, bright sixth formers eager to live and love despite it all. Then Josh Percival, captain of the adopted ship, the SS Treverran, comes with his men to visit Ashworth. The choices that follow will disrupt all their lives, reverberating even to the next generation, when, decades later, life and love are on the line again ...
Journal Entry 2 by YorkCollegeLC at York College in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, October 30, 2011
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