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1407985752

The surplus girls

Author: Heron, Polly

Year: 2020

Language: English

Format: Audio book

Class no: SAG

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Isis

ISBN: 9781407985756

Notes:

Read by Julia Franklin. 13 discs

Manchester, 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of her beloved fiance Ben. After four years of mourning, she finally feels ready to face whatever her future holds without him. But Ben's family can't countenance her putting him to rest, while all her own family care about is getting hold of her meagre factory wages. When Belinda joins a secretarial class to try to better herself, little does she imagine that it will open up a whole new world to her. For not only does she learn to type, but she meets the beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson...