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The Woolworths Girl's Promise
- Woolworths, Book 8
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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The Woolworth Girl’s Promise is the heart warming eighth novel in Elaine Everest’s bestselling Woolworths series that follows the turbulent life of a much-loved Woolworth girl.
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.
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.
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 . . . ?
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 Woolworths Girls in 1938 as war is again on the horizon . . .
'Another uplifting read from the master stpryteller.' - Lancaster Post
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-04-23
Woolworths girls promise
Yet again a wonderful book from the lovely Elaine. I am enjoying all of the girls ups and felt sad at their downs xxxx
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- K. Cleaver
- 08-05-23
oh wow !!
what can I say about the woolworth Girls series ..
the books are absolutely amazing.
when I read long series books, I get fed up and sometimes actually get to quite dislike a character or 2. But not the woolworth girls series characters they are fantastic. I am looking forward to the next book to be released.
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- maggie tate
- 27-07-23
fantastic listening
loved every book it felt like I was there and pictured the scenes well done 👏 xx
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- Sakazoke
- 27-04-23
Thank you Elaine.
This story looking back on the life of Betty was absolutely fantastic! It filled in the gaps of her life, and her love of Charlie. The letter from Elaine at the end made me smile. Elaine get better soon! Sending you love and hugs, Tina
Thank you Annie for the beautiful narration. You always bring each and every character to life.
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- Alison
- 29-03-23
Betty Billington’s story
I loved this book. I have looked up where all the places are in Kent on Google Maps. I particularly like the sound of the reader’s voice, Annie Aldington. She can do different characters very well too. I’m now looking forward to the autumn of 2023 when the next book comes out and I wish the author, Elaine Everest, better health with her eyes in the future. Take it easier so that we benefit from some more jolly good stories. They remind me of my mother and grandmother who lived during the First and Second World Wars. I like the way Elaine shows up the snobbiness of people who thought they were a cut above the working classes, and just how empty they were in reality. It also reminds me of many of my teachers who were single in the 1950s and 60s and who had dedicated their lives to teaching “their” children. We were the generation who benefited from them and we were brought up with sensible straightforward values. For example we were taught that there were 4 genders: masculine, feminine, common and neuter. There was no nonsense then about a woman chairman, as chairman was common! These books have made me appreciate the value of good old-fashioned cooking and cake baking with English food from an allotment, or a toasted tea-cake from Lyon’s Corner House. I still remember going there once on The Strand and seeing the “nippies.” Thank you for this dip back into a byegone age.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-07-23
Wonderful story
What a wonderful story, filling in the gap between the lines of the Woolworths girls
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- Margaret west
- 17-05-23
Brilliant series
I love the Woolworth series. The narrator brings the characters to life and you really feel part of their lives.
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