Wartime for the shop girls / Department stores Women clerks (Retail trade) World War, 1939-1945
Toye, Joanna,
Wartime for the shop girls / Joanna Toye. - Large print edition. - 348 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - Shop girls ; bk. 2 . - Toye, Joanna. Shop girls ; bk. 2. .
1942: As shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlow's department store. Bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favourite brother comes home on leave... Somehow, she must keep smiling through. Community, family and friends rally round as her home town - and the whole country - is tested once again.
9780750548427 0750548428
Department stores--Fiction.
Women clerks (Retail trade)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Large type books.
Wartime for the shop girls / Joanna Toye. - Large print edition. - 348 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - Shop girls ; bk. 2 . - Toye, Joanna. Shop girls ; bk. 2. .
1942: As shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlow's department store. Bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favourite brother comes home on leave... Somehow, she must keep smiling through. Community, family and friends rally round as her home town - and the whole country - is tested once again.
9780750548427 0750548428
Department stores--Fiction.
Women clerks (Retail trade)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Large type books.