Book Review
- Title:
- All The Nice Girls
- Author:
- Joan Bakewell
- Genre:
- WAR
- Publishing Details:
- Virago, 2009
ISBN: 978-1844085309
- Description:
- As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls ( somewhere near Manchester) signs up for the Merchant Navy’s Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, who lost her lover in the First World War, believes the project will broaden the horizons of her girls, especially Polly and Jen, bright sixth formers eager to live and love despite it all. Then Josh Percival, captain of the adopted ship, the SS Treverran, comes with his men to visit Ashworth. The choices that follow will disrupt all their lives, reverberating even to the next generation, when, decades later, life and love are on the line again
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