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Bobby's War

By: Shirley Mann
Narrated by: Rosie Jones
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Winner of the RNA Romantic Saga Award 2021

An inspiring and uplifting tale of women on the home front. For fans of Annie Groves and Nancy Revell.

On the ground, the crowd of men stood with their mouths agape, watching the wings soar into the air, the tail kept impressively steady and the small plane with a woman at the controls disappearing into the May sunshine.

It's 1942 and Bobby Hollis has joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in a team known as the 'glamour girls' - amazing women who pilot aircraft all around the country.

Bobby always wanted to escape life on the family farm and the ATA seemed like the perfect opportunity for her. But there's always something standing in her way. Like a demanding father, who wants to marry her off to a rich man. And the family secrets that threaten to engulf everything.

As Bobby navigates her way through life, and love, she has to learn that controlling a huge, four-engined bomber might just be easier than controlling her own life . . .

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©2020 Shirley Mann (P)2020 Bonnier Books UK Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction War & Military War Feel-Good

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Whilst this story is fiction it depicts the life of women pilots in the ATA in what feels to be a real and true account. well researched and extremely readable it also covers aspects of war history previously unknown to me and of great interest.
There are moments of excitement and suspense as well as romance and intrigue, enough to keep a reader's interest and enough to be anxious to know what will happen next.

There is a good atmosphere of the times and of place which for me is always important in my reading.
I recommend this book to all who wish to escape for a while into another woman's life and time.

women's struggle in a man's world of war.

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Loved the second book by this author. Beautifully written with strong women characters and indepth portrayal of womens roles In the war. Great narration too.

Loved it

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I absolutely loved listening to this book.
The narrator did a great job bringing the characters to life.
The story is fascinating and gave me a much better understanding of the roles of the ATA girls but also the horrors and pain that was endured by so many during the war. Please listen to this book if you enjoy learning more but also realising some fun was had during extremely difficult times

Fabulous

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I am dyslexic so it is great to be able to listen to these books and the books are incredible I want to say thank you to the author and hope she can right some more. ps if any TV companies want to make a drama lily's war and Bobby's war are award winning.

incredible

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I don’t think this book is necessarily being marketed at men in their 30s like me, but I was absolutely gripped by the storytelling.

It really brought home what life might have been like for ordinary people during that time. Highly recommended.

Gripping

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