Back to home page - News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

All the Nice Girls

by Joan Bakewell - £8.99  Virago Press Ltd (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781844085316 | ISBN 10: 1844085317

It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme.
 
The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover in the First World War, believes the idea will broaden the horizons of her girls, especially Polly and Jen, bright sixth formers eager to live and love despite it all. All is as it should be in the line of duty until Captain Josh Percival and his officers of the SS Treverran visit Ashworth...
 
The choices that follow will disrupt all their lives, reverberating even to the next generation, when, decades later, life and love are on the line again.

(Price & availability last checked: January 2019)

This website can't tell you if we have this book in the shop or not - to ask, phone us or use the enquiry link below. (We can order most books within 7-10 days, subject to availability.)
  


In booklists: Fiction - World War II, Writers By Surname - B, Historical Fiction, Peace and War in Fiction,
In categories: Fiction, History & Biography, Peace & Human Rights,

© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page