Book Synopsis:
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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My Review:
I’m a huge fan of this author and I was so exited to learn there was a new Shipyard Girls book to read. I purposely kept this book until the kids went back to school so I could sit and just enjoy it properly.
Firstly it was so amazing being back with the Shipyard Girls and getting to catch up with all that has been happening in their lives. There is definitely a lot going on in this book with lots of things to celebrate with the girls and a few things to commiserated too. Throughout the series the girls have all started to feel like old friends so I felt every up and down they experienced personally as if it was happening to me. I often wished I could somehow climb into the book to give them a hug or do something to make things better.
The book is set in a very interesting period in the war when things finally began to turn in the allies favour which I enjoyed learning about. It was interesting to see the arrival of the American troops to England and the impact their arrival had for the Shipyard Girls. There were some very emotional moments which had me sobbing along as I watched them play out but also some really uplifting ones which I really loved watching unfold.
This book is quite fast paced and there was always something happening to keep me reading. It’s an easy book to get lost in and I’d often start reading promising myself I’d only read one chapter then look up and realise that hours had gone by. All of the character’s go on a real journey in this book and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next, though a bit sad as I think this series will be coming to an end soon.
Huge thanks to Rachel Kennedy for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Nancy Revell is the Sunday Times bestseller author of The Shipyard Girls series, which is set in the north-east of England during World War Two.
Nancy is the pen name of Amanda Revell Walton, a former journalist who worked for all the national newspapers, providing them with hard-hitting news stories and in-depth features. She also wrote amazing and inspirational true life stories for just about every woman’s magazine in the country.
When she first started writing The Shipyard Girls series, Nancy relocated back to her hometown of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, along with her husband, Paul, and their English Bull Mastiff, Rosie. They now live just a short walk away from the beautiful award-winning beaches of Roker and Seaburn, within a mile of where the books are set.
The Shipyard Girls is particularly close to Nancy’s heart as she comes from a long line of shipbuilders, who were well known in the area.
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Great review Joanna, so glad this series is still a good one for you.
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