TY  - BOOK
AU  - Toye,Joanna
TI  - Heartache for the shop girls
T2  - Shop girls
SN  - 9780750548434
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leicester [England]
PB  - Thorpe
KW  - Department stores
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Families
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - Summer 1942. Despite grim reports on the wireless and rationing hitting hard, Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls from Marlow's department store are determined to put out the bunting for a family party. But Beryl's husband Les returns from North Africa a changed man, and Gladys worries for her own fiance's safety. The store is losing staff to the war effort and Lily's young man, Jim, is torn over where his duty lies. Then comes the knock on the door that everyone dreads. Lily's family, always the heart of her world, is rocked to the core. The small Midlands town - and Lily's beloved Marlow's - must face their greatest challenge yet
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