Secrets of the lavender girls / Kate Thompson.
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TextSeries: Thompson, Kate, Homefront girls ; 02.Publisher: London : Hodder, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 437 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473698147 (paperback)Subject(s): Historical fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction | Cosmetics industry -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | East End (London, England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | War fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Stratford, 1943. World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics factory in East London, there are even more challenges on the home front. Esther, newly married, is learning to juggle life as a working woman with her duties as a wife and homemaker. Patsy, a new recruit at the Yardley factory, has a double life that takes her from the East End lipstick belt by day to the stage in the West End at night. For Lou, a forbidden love forces her to choose between family loyalty and a chance at true happiness.
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"In wartime, everyone's hiding something..." -- Cover.
Includes factual information and author's note.
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Stratford, 1943. World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics factory in East London, there are even more challenges on the home front. Esther, newly married, is learning to juggle life as a working woman with her duties as a wife and homemaker. Patsy, a new recruit at the Yardley factory, has a double life that takes her from the East End lipstick belt by day to the stage in the West End at night. For Lou, a forbidden love forces her to choose between family loyalty and a chance at true happiness.
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