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Secrets of the Lavender Girls
A Historical Fiction Novel by Kate Thompson
Book 2 of the Homefront Girls Series
Subgenres:
- World War II Home Front,
- Women's Friendship,
- Found Family
This book is for you if you're into...
- Wartime sisterhood set in a real-life London cosmetics factory
- Double lives and secret dreams colliding with family expectations
- Forbidden love stories tangled up in the chaos of World War Two
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. And she must find a way to help her adopted family on the Shoot, who are battling their own hidden demons . . .
Headstrong 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. But will she be able to keep her secrets hidden from her controlling mother, Queenie?
For bubbly Lou, a forbidden love forces her to choose between family loyalty and a chance at true happiness. Can she be brave enough to forge her own path in the chaos of a war?
One thing is certain: the Lavender Girls need one another more than ever if they are going to survive . . .
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