Book Synopsis:
As war rages, everyone has to do their bit…
Bristol 1941
As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers.
As well as coping with the frequent air raids, Maisie is kept on her toes with three new junior employees one of whom is particularly testing.
Bridget’s heart becomes torn between family loyalty and American tobacco tycoon Lyndon O’Neill III, the man she loves.
Meanwhile Phyllis Harvey has joined the WAAF, opting to serve overseas whilst trying to escape her past. Her letters home are upbeat and her friends are initially envious of descriptions of sunshine and blue sea. The truth she hides is that life on the island of Malta is fraught with extreme food shortages, daily air raids and the fear that tomorrow might never come.
The future appears far less certain as the reality of war bites into The Tobacco Girls’ lives.
Fire & Fury is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the links below.
My Review:
Fire and Fury is a fascinating, gripping and emotional read that I found hard to put down. It is the third book in the fantastic Tobacco Girls series which in my opinion keeps getting better and better!
Firstly it was great to be back with the Tobacco girls and I was quickly thrown back into their lives. I’ve grown very fond of them over the series and they have started to feel like old friends to me so I found myself very invested in their story. I soon felt I had to keep reading as I cared about what happened to them. They are a great group of girls and I loved reading more about the friendship that has grown between them. Each girl is slightly different and they all bring different things to the story which makes for very interesting reading.
This book focuses on a dark time in the war and I enjoyed following the girls as they tried to juggle their work, volunteer work and their personal lives. It was interesting to learn more about what life was like on the home front and the bravery of the woman who stepped up to help the war effort. Phyllis’s posting to Malta helped the reader to experience the war from another point of view and I found it fascinating to learn more about Malta during the war.
Overall I really liked this book and can’t wait to read more in this series The author’s writing style helps draw the reader into the book and there was always something happening to keep me glued to the page. I felt sad when the book ended and I had to leave all the fabulous characters behind.
Huge thanks to Rachel from Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Bold wood for my copy of this book via netgalley.
About The Author:
Lizzie Lane has written over fifty books a number of which have appeared in the top thirty best selling paperbacks and the Heatseekers charts. Her pet interest is WW2, how little people carried on regardless against the biggest upheaval the world had ever known. She mentions at one stage about how it seemed Britain was sinking beneath the weight of weaponry and allied soldiers from all over the world.Born and raised in Bristol, a number of her family were involved in the tobacco industry which at one time employed 13,000 people in the city. This is the inspiration behind her latest series, The Tobacco Girls which is set against those five years of war and follows their lives and loves, their hope for survival and better times to come.
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