A wedding for the Cornish girls / Betty Walker.
By: Walker, Betty (Novelist) [author].
Series: Walker, Betty Cornish girls: 5.Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Magna, 2023Edition: Large print edition.Description: 396 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750550659.Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Cornwall (England : County) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 1943. When eighteen-year-old Alice receives a mysterious work summons for a special unit in Bude, Cornwall, she's terrified but excited. Forbidden from telling a soul, she launches into training for the most important job she's ever had. Meanwhile, Land Girl Penny also heads to Bude to work at the dairy. Dreaming of finding love, Penny longs for the confidence to speak to a charming local fisherman. Young widow Evelyn runs the boarding house where Alice and Penny are staying. Between caring for a small child and her tearaway younger sister, she is utterly run off her feet. So when two American soldiers are billeted in her house, Evelyn butts heads with them immediately.But might sparks fly for Evelyn when she least expects it? Can Penny pluck up the courage to pursue romance? And will Alice be up to the job?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Chester Lane Library Large Print | Issued | 09/05/2024 | 38055013163373 |
1943. When eighteen-year-old Alice receives a mysterious work summons for a special unit in Bude, Cornwall, she's terrified but excited. Forbidden from telling a soul, she launches into training for the most important job she's ever had. Meanwhile, Land Girl Penny also heads to Bude to work at the dairy. Dreaming of finding love, Penny longs for the confidence to speak to a charming local fisherman. Young widow Evelyn runs the boarding house where Alice and Penny are staying. Between caring for a small child and her tearaway younger sister, she is utterly run off her feet. So when two American soldiers are billeted in her house, Evelyn butts heads with them immediately.But might sparks fly for Evelyn when she least expects it? Can Penny pluck up the courage to pursue romance? And will Alice be up to the job?
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