by JoannaToye (Author), Joanna Toye (Author)
`Highly recommended - an engrossing story with a charmingly forthright heroine.' Anna Jacobs
A nostalgic and gripping novel about wartime life in a town's department store.
1941: with men being drafted to fight, Lily Collins' secures a job as a junior on sales within the hallowed halls of town department store Marlow's, whose windows filled with glossy, expensive goods have fascinated her since childhood. The day she starts work is the first time she's ever set foot through the doors.
As bombs drop and shortages intensify, Lily progresses from a nervous junior to a spirited and confident young woman torn between the possibility of romance and her love for the store.
With the war progressing to crisis point, Lily's friends and family must battle rationing, bombings and the absence of loved ones to keep soldiering on. A Store at War weaves a powerful sense of community together with the vivid evocation of a time when every man, woman and child was doing their bit.
Format: paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published:
ISBN 10: 0008298238
ISBN 13: 9780008298234
`Highly recommended - an engrossing story with a charmingly forthright heroine.' Anna Jacobs
Joanna Toye joined the production team of The Archers after reading English at Cambridge University, and became a scriptwriter for the programme for over twenty years. She has also written a number of spin-off books about the long-running radio drama. On television she has written for Crossroads, Family Affairs, Doctors and EastEnders.
A Store at War is her first novel.