The Chilbury Ladies' Choir / Jennifer Ryan.
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TextPublisher: London : Borough Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 453 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008163709; 9780008163716Subject(s): Choirs (Music) -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Choirs (Music) -- England -- Fiction | Women -- England -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Diary fiction. | Epistolary fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead resurrect themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. There's a timid widow devastated when her only son goes to fight; the older daughter of a local scion drawn to a mysterious artist; her younger sister pining over an impossible crush; a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia hiding a family secret; and a conniving midwife plotting to outrun her seedy past.
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As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to close the choir and instead resurrect themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. There's a timid widow devastated when her only son goes to fight; the older daughter of a local scion drawn to a mysterious artist; her younger sister pining over an impossible crush; a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia hiding a family secret; and a conniving midwife plotting to outrun her seedy past.
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