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    London Belles

    By Annie Groves

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 31, 2011
    ISBN9780007384563
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    Annie Groves

    Annie Groves was the creation of the much-loved writer, Penny Halsall, who died in 2011. Penny was born and lived in the north-west of England all of her life and the Annie Groves novels drew on her family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories as a child.Penny’s legacy of heart-warming and uplifting novels lives on through writer Jenny Shaw – who knew Penny personally for many years.

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    • 3/5
      One of my guilty pleasures is the World War II homefront genre fiction that is popular in the UK. This book, the first in a series is about four young women living on a street in the east end of London at the beginning of World War II. Sally is a nurse at St. Bartholomew's hospital, Dulcie is a shop assistant sat Selfridge's, Agnes works on the Underground and Tilly works in a social worker capacity. They all live with Tilly's mother, Olive, in her house and come to find love as the war devastates the city.This book is not going to win any literary prizes, but like I said, these books are my guilty pleasures like popcorn at the movies.
    • 4/5
      One of my favourite guilty-pleasure authors has done it again. I love this book, I love the characters. A perfect read for those looking for something gentle yet emotional.
    • 4/5
      Starting off her Article Row series, London Belles by Annie Groves covers the first year of WW II. The story revolves around a house on a small middle class street called Article Row in London. Tilly and her mother decide to take lodgers in to help with expenses, and sensible nurse Sally, shy orphan Agnes and confident shopgirl Dulcie are soon living there as well. These four girls, along with Olive, Tillys’ mother soon find themselves facing the difficulties of being at war, but when the bombs start dropping on their city, they discover that they have also become a family that cares and looks out for each other as well.The story covers the phoney war, Dunkirk and the beginning of the Battle of Britain and closes at the end of 1940. Each of the girls and Olive have an ongoing storyline and all will experience love, passion and heartbreak through the course of the series. I am sure they will also be learning some valuable life lessons as well. I am currently reading another of Annie Groves wartime series, this one set in Liverpool, so there is a slight cookie-cutter feeling about the book, but I am a big sucker for books set in England during WW II so I will more than likely continue on with this series at some point.