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The first book in a new heart warming and uplifting WWII series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest - preorder now!
Jenny didn't want to leave her life in Clapham, but when she unexpectedly loses her job and her mother moves up to Allanby Cross, Jenny has no choice but to go with her. Things soon start to look up for Jenny, though, as she's offered the role of editor for the local newspaper,
The Allanby Cross Gazette.Budding photographer
Eleanor longs to work, so when Jenny asks her to help with the photography for the Gazette, it feels like a dream come true.
Alongside
Iolanthe, who works for a local guest house and helps with the day-to-day running of the paper, the new friends breathe new life into the once-struggling newspaper. But when things at the Gazette start going wrong, the Wartime Newspaper Girls begin to wonder if they're dealing with a saboteur.
As the war rages overseas, Jenny, Eleanor and Iolanthe must rely on one another as they work to uncover who's behind the disruption and save the newspaper before it's too late?Readers LOVE Lesley Eames! '
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About the author
Lesley is an author of historical sagas. Having previously written sagas set around the time of the First World War, she ventured into the Second World War period with her fifth book,
The Wartime Bookshop. Originally from the north west of England (Manchester), Lesley's home is now Hertfordshire where
The Wartime Bookshop's fictional village of Churchwood is set. Lesley is thrilled to have enjoyed success in competitions as varied as crime writing to writing for children. She is particularly honoured to have won the Festival of Romance New Talent Award, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Trophy and to have been twice shortlisted in the UK Romantic Novel Awards (RONAs).
