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  • The Steel Girls

  • The Steel Girls, Book 1
  • By: Michelle Rawlins
  • Narrated by: Laura Brydon
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Summary

When war breaks out, friendship will see them through.

Sheffield, 1939. With war declared, these brave women will step up and do their bit for their country.

Housewife Nancy never dreamed that she’d end up in Vickers steelworks factory, but when husband Bert is called up to serve, she needs to put food on the table for her two young children.

Betty’s sweetheart, William, has joined the RAF Reserves, so she can’t sit around and do nothing - even if it means giving up her ambitions to study law at night school.

Young Patty is relishing the excitement the war brings. But this shop-girl is going to have to grow up quickly, especially now she’s undertaking such back-breaking and dangerous work in the factory.

The Steel Girls start off as strangers but quickly forge an unbreakable bond of friendship as these feisty factory sisters vow to keep the foundry fires burning during wartime.

©2021 Michelle Rawlins (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"Hardship, courage and hope on the Home Front." (Kate Thompson, best-selling author of Secrets of the Lavender Girls)

"A heart-warming story perfect for saga lovers." (Nancy Revell, best-selling author of the Shipyard Girls series)

"A great read." (Yorkshire Post)

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