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The telephone girls / Jenny Holmes.
By: Holmes, Jenny.
Publisher: Magna, 2020Edition: Large print edition.Description: 426 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780750547703; 0750547707.Subject(s): Female friendship -- Fiction | Telephone operators -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 1936. West Yorkshire is home to a gleaming, brand-new telephone exchange where Cynthia, Norma and Millicent work the complicated electrical switchboards. They relish the independence and friendship their jobs have given them. But when a colleague connects a telephone call and listens in to the conversation - breaking one of the telephonists' main rules - the three women become caught up in a story of scandal, corruption and murder. Soon, all their jobs are on the line. In tough times, the telephone girls will need to call on their friends more than ever.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | St Helens Library Large Print | Available | 38055013136924 |
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1936. West Yorkshire is home to a gleaming, brand-new telephone exchange where Cynthia, Norma and Millicent work the complicated electrical switchboards. They relish the independence and friendship their jobs have given them. But when a colleague connects a telephone call and listens in to the conversation - breaking one of the telephonists' main rules - the three women become caught up in a story of scandal, corruption and murder. Soon, all their jobs are on the line. In tough times, the telephone girls will need to call on their friends more than ever.
Adult.