WOMEN ON THE HOME FRONT:
FAMILY SAGA 4-BOOK COLLECTION
LONDON BELLES by Annie Groves
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES by Pam Weaver
CORONATION DAY by Kay Brelland
and
THE WAR WIDOWS by Leah Fleming
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Annie Groves 2013
Copyright © Pam Weaver 2013
Copyright © Kay Brellend 2013
Copyright © Leah Fleming 2013
The authors above assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: (London Belles) 9780007384563, (Pack Up Your Troubles) 9780007480449, (Coronation Day) 9780007481460, (The War Widows) 9780007334971
Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007565023
Version: 2017-09-12
Table of Contents
ANNIE GROVES
London Belles
Copyright
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © Annie Groves 2011
Annie Groves asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Source ISBN: 9780007361502
Ebook Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007384563
Version: 2017-09-12
I’d like to dedicate this book to all those who throughout WW2 made do, mended and somehow kept together the fabric of everyday life.
Contents
Copyright
Part One: August 1939
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Part Two: June 1940
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Annie Groves
Part One
August 1939
Chapter One
‘So what are you going to do now that old Bert has finally gone, Olive? I mean, you won’t have his pension any more, will you? Your Tilly might be working up at the hospital as an assistant to the Lady Almoner, but I dare say she isn’t bringing