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The Boat Girls

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The Boat Girls

By: Margaret Mayhew
Narrated by: Ruth Sillers
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About this listen

It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. Frances - her life of seeming privilege has been a lonely one. Brave and strong, stifled by her traditional upbringing, she falls for a most unsuitable man Prudence - timid and conventional, her horizons have never strayed beyond her job as a bank clerk in Croydon until the war brings her new experiences Rosalind - a beautiful, flame-haired actress who catches the eye of Frances's stuffy elder brother, the heir to an ancestral mansion.

The three become friends when they join the band of women working the canal boats, delivering goods and doing a man's job while the men are away fighting. A tough, unglamorous task - but one which brings them all unexpected rewards.

©2007 Margaret Mayhew (P)2013 Magna Publishing, Random House Audiobooks 2013 Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance War

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had this on the shelf for years but never read saw it on audible and bought it fab story and well read

Fabulous

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I loved every single minute, the narrator is fantastic! Highly recommend, sad it had finished.

loved every single minute!!

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I really enjoyed listening to The Boat Girls. Margaret Mayhew knew what she was writing about. I know about the women who worked on the boats during WW2 and got really absorbed in the story. The only flaw was quite a common error and Ruth Sillers wouldn’t have known and neither did Audible. Winding a boat to turn it round isn’t pronounced as in winding a ball of string, but as using the wind to assist in turning the boat. Otherwise, an extremely enjoyable journey

An Extremely Enjoyable Journey Through History

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