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Girls of the Great War
Contributor(s): Lightfoot, Freda (Author)
ISBN: 1612187196     ISBN-13: 9781612187198
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Sagas
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century
Dewey: 823.914
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.80 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

She wanted a new life. Now she's risking it to save others.

Cecily Hanson longs to live life on her own terms--to leave the shadow of her overbearing mother and marry her childhood sweetheart once he returns from the Great War. But when her fianc is lost at sea, this future is shattered. Looking for meaning again, she decides to perform for the troops in France.

Life on the front line is both rewarding and terrifying, and Cecily soon finds herself more involved--and more in danger--than she ever thought possible. And her family has followed her to France. Her sister, Merryn, has fallen for a young drummer whose charm hides a dark side, while their mother, Queenie--a faded star of the stage tormented by her own secret heartache--seems set on a path of self-destruction.

As the war draws to a close and their hopes turn once again to the future, Cecily and Merryn are more determined than ever to unravel the truth about their mother's past: what has she been hiding from them--and why?

Contributor Bio(s): Lightfoot, Freda: - Sunday Times bestselling author Freda Lightfoot hails from Oswaldtwistle, a small mill town in Lancashire. Her mother comes from generations of weavers, and her father was a shoe repairer; she still remembers the first pair of clogs he made for her. After several years of teaching, Freda opened a bookshop in Kendal, Cumbria. And while living in the rural Lakeland Fells, rearing sheep and hens and making jam, Freda turned to writing. She wrote over fifty articles and short stories for magazines such as My Weekly and Woman's Realm, before finding her vocation as a novelist. She has since written over forty-five novels, mostly historical fiction and family sagas. She now lives in Spain with her own olive grove, and divides her time between sunny winters and the summer rains of Britain.