The ferry girls / Rosie Archer.
By: Archer, Rosie.
Series: Archer, Rosie. Ferry girls: 1.Publisher: Long Preston : Magna, 2019Edition: Large print edition.Description: 336 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750547123; 075054712X.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Germans -- England -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Gosport (England) -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 1941. Violetta 'Vee' Smith has a secret. Her real name is Schmidt, and she is half German. Vee and her mother May risk being interned as enemy aliens... if their neighbours don't find out and torch their smallholding near Southampton first. Vee and May need false papers and local 'businessman' Sammy Chesterton offers them - for a price. But the price is too high, and so she runs away to Gosport, where ferries plough back and forth to Portsmouth. When handsome ferry skipper Jack offers Vee a job and a room in his house with the other ferry girls, Vee finds herself falling for him. There's just one problem: his wife, Madelaine.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Adult book | Haydock Library Large Print | Issued | 17/05/2024 | 38055013129820 |
1941. Violetta 'Vee' Smith has a secret. Her real name is Schmidt, and she is half German. Vee and her mother May risk being interned as enemy aliens... if their neighbours don't find out and torch their smallholding near Southampton first. Vee and May need false papers and local 'businessman' Sammy Chesterton offers them - for a price. But the price is too high, and so she runs away to Gosport, where ferries plough back and forth to Portsmouth. When handsome ferry skipper Jack offers Vee a job and a room in his house with the other ferry girls, Vee finds herself falling for him. There's just one problem: his wife, Madelaine.
Adult.