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Strawberry Field Girls at War

Author : Karen Dickson

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 30,13 MB

Release : 2024-06-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1398530980

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A brand new wartime saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val Wood Summer, 1916 Despite the misery of war in the air, some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge remain unchanged. The strawberry harvest is nearly ready and friends Leah, Alice and Dora still have each other. Before the war, the three women had found a tentative happiness but now war has torn their lives apart. Each woman must learn to live with their new life at war, dealing with the absence of their loved ones and finding courage in the hardest of times…



The Strawberry Field Girls at War

Author : Karen Dickson (Novelist)

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,27 MB

Release : 2024

Category : Domestic fiction

ISBN : 9780750551519

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Summer, 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air, some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge remain unchanged. The strawberry harvest is nearly ready and friends Leah, Alice and Dora still have each other. Before the war, the three women had found a tentative happiness but now war has torn their lives apart. Each woman must learn to live with their new life at war, dealing with the absence of their loved ones and finding courage in the hardest of times...



A Songbird in Wartime

Author : Karen Dickson

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 44,57 MB

Release : 2021-12-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1398503657

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A wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val Wood Shaftesbury, 1936. Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. Not only did they give her employment as a chambermaid, but it’s also where she met her fiancé Tom. When theatre agent Roland stays at the hotel and hears Emily singing, he is determined to take her away to Bristol and make her a star. But knowing she'd never leave her fiancé, he hatches a plan to get Emily away from Tom. Six years later, Emily has made a name for herself as 'The Bristol Songbird'. Her love for Tom is still as strong as ever, but she's not heard from him since that fateful night so long ago. And with the world enveloped in a war, it seems unlikely the two will ever meet again. Will Emily and Tom ever find their way back to one another? Or will the war – and Roland – succeed in keeping them apart? Praise for Karen Dickson: ‘A compelling saga that will hold you fast from the first page to the last. Loved it’ VAL WOOD, author of The Lonely Wife 'This rollercoaster of a novel draws you in from the first page… I devoured this in one sitting and look forward to more from this author. In short a gem of a read' FIONA FORD, author of Wartime at Liberty's 'A delight to read... Lily Hayter is a wonderful heroine whose resilience and integrity shine through as she struggles to claim a life of her choosing and find a family. At the heart of the story is a warmth and humanity that makes it a truly uplifting read. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was sorry when I reached the end because I wanted to linger in Dickson’s world. I eagerly await more from Karen Dickson' VICKI BEEBY, author of The Ops Room Girls ‘An exciting, fresh and talented new voice – a five-star read!’ CAROL RIVERS, author of Molly’s Christmas Orphans 'The characters in this novel are so believable that I cared deeply about them from the first chapter. A heartfelt, hopeful account of one young woman’s fight to keep her child safe when all the odds are against her. Atmospheric and beautifully written' JAN CASEY, author of The Women of Waterloo Bridge



The Strawberry Field Girls

Author : Karen Dickson

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 31,61 MB

Release : 2022-11-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1398503681

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PRE-ORDER THE STRAWBERRY FIELD GIRLS AT WAR, THE NEW HEARTWARMING SAGA FROM KAREN KICKSON, COMING JUNE 2024! The strawberry harvest is finally ready. The delicious fruit make up the main source of income for the small hamlet of Strawbridge. Good friends Leah, Alice and Dora are ready to spend their summer months working in Isaac Whitworth’s farm. But when Leah takes a fancy to young farm hand Harry and Alice catches the eye of the curate’s son the two girls find themselves falling fast. This leaves Dora on the outside, struggling with the weight of being here family’s sole breadwinner and caring for her sickly father. But the summer months are long and the surprises are far from over…





American Women in a World at War

Author : Judy Barrett Litoff

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Page : 253 pages

File Size : 19,69 MB

Release : 1996-12-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0742599221

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This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. This volume is divided into the six sections listed below: Preparing for War In the Military At 'Far-Flung' Fronts On the Home Front War Jobs Preparing for the Postwar World



The Strawberry Field Girls

Author : Karen Dickson (Novelist)

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,32 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Domestic fiction

ISBN : 9780750550338

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The strawberry harvest is finally ready. This delicious fruit makes up the main source of income for the small hamlet of Strawbridge; and good friends Leah, Alice and Dora are ready to spend their summer months working on Isaac Whitworth's farm. But when Leah takes a fancy to young farmhand Harry, and Alice catches the eye of Samuel, the new curate, the two girls find themselves falling fast. This leaves Dora on the outside, struggling with the weight of being her family's sole breadwinner and caring for her sickly father. However, the summer months are long, and the surprises far from over. Away from the fields, a war is brewing which risks everything the girls can dare to dream about...



Remembering Strawberry Fields

Author : Mary E. Matury Gibson

Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 41,39 MB

Release : 2014-12-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1627871810

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Strawberry Fields

Author : Marina Lewycka

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 50,33 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781594201370

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A farmer's indiscretions force a band of illegal migrant workers from different backgrounds to flee their strawberry fields and embark on a haphazard journey across England in search of better lives, an effort marked by an unlikely love affair.



Two Caravans

Author : Marina Lewycka

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 44,42 MB

Release : 2008-03-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0141923636

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Two Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There are the Poles, Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; and Emauel from Malawi. They're all here to pick strawberries in England's green and pleasant land. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants. Not with Russian gangster-wannabes like Vulk, who's taken a shine to Irina and thinks kidnapping is a wooing strategy. And so Andriy - who really doesn't fancy Irina, honest - must set off in search of that girl he's not in love with. 'Immensely appealing. All but sings with zest for life...could hardly be more engaging, shrewd and winningly perceptive' Sunday Times 'Extremely funny, closely observed insights, scenes of farce, tragedy and horror' The Times Literary Supplement 'Hilarious and horrifying, Two Caravans is funny, clever and well observed' Guardian Bestselling author Marina Lewkyca has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her hilarious first novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian in 2005, which was the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction 2005, winner of the Saga Award for Wit 2005, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 and longlisted for the Booker prize 2005. Her other humorous novels We Are All Made of Glue and Various Pets Alive and Dead are also available from Penguin. Two Caravans is published as Strawberry Fields in the USA and Canada.