One week in August / Dance parties Female friendship Balls (Parties) Young women First loves Nineteen fifties
Thornton, Margaret, 1934-
One week in August / Margaret Thornton. - Trade paperback edition. - 236 pages ; 22 cm.
"The summer of 1955 was one they would never forget" -- Cover. First published: 2015.
August, 1955: Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother's Blackpool boarding house before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker's woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. When they attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, the events of that evening will change all their lives, both for better and for worse. Romance beckons for all three girls but can a holiday fling ever lead to something deeper? As autumn approaches, the three friends discover that life doesn't always turn out as one would expect and the course of true love never did run smooth.
9781847516626 9780727885531
Dance parties--England--Blackpool--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Balls (Parties)--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
823.9/14
One week in August / Margaret Thornton. - Trade paperback edition. - 236 pages ; 22 cm.
"The summer of 1955 was one they would never forget" -- Cover. First published: 2015.
August, 1955: Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother's Blackpool boarding house before she heads off to university. When Val and Cissie, both from Walker's woollen mill in Halifax, come to stay for a week, the three young women form an instant friendship. When they attend a local dance at the Winter Gardens, the events of that evening will change all their lives, both for better and for worse. Romance beckons for all three girls but can a holiday fling ever lead to something deeper? As autumn approaches, the three friends discover that life doesn't always turn out as one would expect and the course of true love never did run smooth.
9781847516626 9780727885531
Dance parties--England--Blackpool--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Balls (Parties)--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
823.9/14