The Railway Girls - Maisie Thomas - 2020
Railway Girls, Book 1
By: Maisie Thomas
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
Series: The Railway Girls Series, Book 1
Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-28-20
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 mono
The first novel in the utterly brilliant Railway Girls series. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean.
In February, 1922, at the western-most entrance to Victoria Station in Manchester, a massive plaque was unveiled. Beneath a vast tiled map showing the lines of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway network, a series of seven bronze panels recorded the names of the men of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War - a total of 1,460 names.
In March, 1940, a group of women of varying ages and backgrounds stands in front of the memorial, ready to do its bit in this new World War....
Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the terrible thing she did and she can put her guilt behind her. Or is she just running away?
Meanwhile, Joan will never be as good as her sister, or so her gran keeps telling her. A new job as a station clerk could be just the thing she needs to forget her troubles at home.
And Dot is further into her 40s than she cares to admit. Her beloved sons are away fighting, and her husband - well, the less said about him the better. Ratty old sod. She is anxious to become a railway girl just like her dear mam - anything to feel she is supporting the sons she prays for every night.
The three women start off as strangers but soon form an unbreakable bond that will get them through the toughest of times....
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