TY - BOOK AU - Lovell,Posy TI - The Kew Gardens girls at war SN - 9780750549400 PY - 2022/// CY - Leicester PB - Thorpe, Magna KW - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - England KW - Women gardeners KW - Female friendship KW - Sex discrimination KW - Domestic fiction KW - Large type books N1 - Adult N2 - 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? UR - http://www.ulverscroft.com/images/thumbs/9780750549400.jpg ER -