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The Light Over London

The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year

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The Light Over London

By: Julia Kelly
Narrated by: Lucy Brownhill
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About this listen

 A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country

2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever...

1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is swept off her feet. Then Paul is sent to war and Louise, defying her mother's wishes, ends up a gunner girl in London.

Watching the pitch-black skies for bombers, Louise finds comfort recording her dreams in her diary. And as Cara reads her words, decades later, she learns that hope can be found even in the darkest of times, she just needs to take a chance...

Discover the story of the remarkable World War Two gunner girls in this entrancing and heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of Martha Hall Kelly's The Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale. 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Women Women's Fiction Heartfelt War

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Simply a lovely story, beautifully read.

The pacing was perfect and I found myself really looking forward to putting the headphones on each time to carry on the story. A lovely escape. Thank you Julia Kelly and Lucy Brownhill.

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I did enjoy the story of Louise and Cara but I must say I almost gave up due to the historical inaccuracies. They really annoyed me. I don’t think the author researched enough and so made too many errors.

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