The Shipyard Girls on the Home Front
by Nancy Revel (£7.99, Cornerstone, PB) The tenth in the Shipyard Girls series. Set in the north-east in WW2, the women are still hard at work in the shipyards. Gloria is reunited with her sweetheart but her sons know nothing of her divorce; Rosie awaits news of her husband who’s working as an undercover operative in France; and Dorothy thinks Toby may propose – but is it what she really wants? Vivid characters in one of the most challenging times in history.