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The Kew Gardens girls at war / Posy Lovell.
By: Lovell, Posy.
Publisher: Leicester : Thorpe, Magna, 2022Description: 456 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750549400.Subject(s): Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction | Women gardeners -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Sex discrimination -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: When Daisy Cooper's new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, her mother Ivy suggests she joins the gardeners at Kew to keep busy. Meanwhile Beth Sanderson is furious after her father stops her applying to medical school. Angry and frustrated, she applies to a new wartime role at Kew Gardens, but the committee is run by men and Beth is asked to take a job as a gardener instead. When tragedy hits, the women are forced to come together to support each other through their darkest hours. But can the Kew Gardens Girls survive the horrors of war-torn London this time?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Chester Lane Library Large Print | Available | 38055013153937 |
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When Daisy Cooper's new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, her mother Ivy suggests she joins the gardeners at Kew to keep busy. Meanwhile Beth Sanderson is furious after her father stops her applying to medical school. Angry and frustrated, she applies to a new wartime role at Kew Gardens, but the committee is run by men and Beth is asked to take a job as a gardener instead. When tragedy hits, the women are forced to come together to support each other through their darkest hours. But can the Kew Gardens Girls survive the horrors of war-torn London this time?
Adult.