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1940 and the workload of Thompsons, the Tyneside Wearsidee shipyard, increases so much they do the unthinkable: employ women to perform the roles traditionally taken by men. It's the bravest as well as the strongest women who accept the challenge and, under the expert tuition of Rosie, begin to take their places beside their male counterparts. It's not an easy ride for any of them. In fact, as they band together, there's one particular group that will face dangers in their daily lives as real - and more imminent - than any encountered on the slipway.
Journalist and writer Amanda Revell Walton hails from Sunderland and a family deep in shipyard heritage. It therefore made perfect sense for her to take on the pen name of [[:Category:Nancy Revell|Nancy Revell]] in order to separate her second profession from the day job and treat us to a novel that's as accurate as it is enthralling.
