Description
Product ID: | 9781529078060 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Woolworths Girl's Promise |
Authors: | Author: Elaine Everest |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Historical romance, Historical romance, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Sagas, Historical fiction, Kent, London, Greater London, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The eighth instalment in bestselling author Elaine Everest’s Woolworths series. <p><b><i>The Woolworth Girl</i></b><b>’<i>s Promise</i></b> <b>is the heart warming eighth novel in Elaine Everest’s bestselling Woolworths series that follows the turbulent life of a much-loved Woolworth girl.</b><br><br>After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parent’s roof she is taken in by Charlie’s father, escaping the suffocating demands of her parents.<br><br>Betty soon learns all too well about the realities of life after an accident at the Woolwich Arsenal munitions works. Spotting an advertisement for a nearby job at Woolworths, Betty starts on a new and thrilling journey starting at the bottom of the employment ladder in the well-known store.<br><br>Her work journey leads her to Ramsgate in Kent to work in a newly built store and with it the chance of marriage, but can she ever forget Charlie and the promise she made to him . . . ?<br><br>Read this exciting early chapter in the life of well-known Betty Billington and follow her journey before she arrives at the Erith store and meets fellow <i>Woolworths Girls</i> in 1938 as war is again on the horizon . . .<br><br><b>'Another uplifting read from the master stpryteller.' - <i>Lancaster Post</i></b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-02-16 |