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|author= Aliya Whiteley
|title= The Arrival of Missives
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diney Costeloe
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114965</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Gibson
|summary=''Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys'' is the latest book in Mary Gibson's Bermondsey series. This time, the Lloyd family take centre stage: Mum, Dad, son Jack and daughters May and Peggy. War is raging in Europe and Bermondsey is not immune from daily onslaught of bombs. A tragic event one night changes everything and home-bird May decides to fly the nest in order to participate in the war effort. The war will leave no-one unscathed; the strongest hearts can be paralysed by fear and the unlikeliest of people can emerge as heroes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185596X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Brody
|title=Sisters on Bread Street
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world war. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's son, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is German.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>
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