The Blitz girls / Johanna Bell; read by Sarah Durham.
By: Bell, Johanna [author].
Contributor(s): Durham, Sarah (Narrator) [Reader].
Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Magna, 2023Description: 9 sound discs (CD) (approximately 9 hr. 19 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781399130295.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction | Families -- England -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Cast: Durham, Sarah.Summary: August, 1940. The war is raging in Europe, but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot, living with her mother-in-law and dreading the day that her thuggish husband comes home on leave, is fighting her own battle to contribute to the war effort. Peggy has found confidence as an Air Raid Precaution Warden, despite the jeers of the men she works with - but beneath her pluck she fears for her close-knit family, scattered by the war. And glamorous Vivian, the former debutante, is running away from her own heart and into danger as a volunteer ambulance driver. Then the bombs begin to fall over London, and all their lives are turned upside down. Thrown together into an unlikely friendship, can the Blitz Girls protect their country - and each other - in the darkest hour?Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Audiobooks | Thatto Heath Library Talking Book | Available | 38055013162854 |
Story Sound CD
Durham, Sarah.
August, 1940. The war is raging in Europe, but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot, living with her mother-in-law and dreading the day that her thuggish husband comes home on leave, is fighting her own battle to contribute to the war effort. Peggy has found confidence as an Air Raid Precaution Warden, despite the jeers of the men she works with - but beneath her pluck she fears for her close-knit family, scattered by the war. And glamorous Vivian, the former debutante, is running away from her own heart and into danger as a volunteer ambulance driver. Then the bombs begin to fall over London, and all their lives are turned upside down. Thrown together into an unlikely friendship, can the Blitz Girls protect their country - and each other - in the darkest hour?
Adult.