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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorChocolate Girls
Annie Murray · 528 pages
Home Front Girls
Rosie Goodwin · 439 pages
Dotty prepares for her first day at work in the city's most magnificent department store. She's terrified, as she hasn't known life outside of the orphanage where she grew up. Lucy is the sole carer of her little sister and the head of the home now that her brother has been called up to fight. She too has found work at Owen Owen as a means to support her family. Annabelle has led a life of privile
The Mersey Daughter
Annie Groves · 408 pages
The Four Streets
Nadine Dorries · 329 pages
This is a heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless - and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. Will her adored father wake up to what is happening before it is too late? The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone,
The Last Secret of the Deverills
Santa Montefiore · 452 pages
Het is inmiddels 1939 en de vriendschap tussen de drie vrouwen, Kitty, Bridie en Celia, is inmiddels lang niet meer zo sterk als eerst.
China Dolls
Lisa See · 401 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's extravagan
When We Danced at the End of the Pier
Sandy Taylor
The Girl Under the Olive Tree
Leah Fleming · 443 pages
May 1941, and the island of Crete is captured by the Germans bringing together two very different women and changing their lives forever...May 1941 and the island of Crete is invaded by Paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping PoWs, sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later, Lois We
The Women in the Castle CD
Jessica Shattuck
The Ship of Brides
Jojo Moyes · 496 pages
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Aust
The Nightingale Girls
Donna Douglas
Meet Molly: An American Girl
Valerie Tripp · 58 pages
While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.
The Woolworths Girls
Elaine Everest
I'll Be Seeing You
Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, Suzanne Palmieri · 313 pages
Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.
Next to Love
Ellen Feldman · 292 pages
Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture.
Light a Penny Candle
Maeve Binchy · 542 pages
As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support
Citadel
Kate Mosse · 689 pages
"Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse's eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland and protect astonishing secrets buried in time in France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a colorf
Bringing Down the Duke
Evie Dunmore · 335 pages
Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys
Mary Gibson
May Lloyd's father calls her his homing pigeon because of her uncanny knack of navigating her way around the streets of South London - even in pitch darkness. It is a gift that will save her life when the Blitz destroys nearly everything that she holds dear. With her home in ruins, May joins the ATS - the women's branch of the British Army - and becomes a gunner girl, operating Ack Ack guns agains
The Midwife of Auschwitz
Anna Stuart · 348 pages
Rose Under Fire
Elizabeth Wein · 414 pages
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
Marius Gabriel
A Woman's Place
Lynn Austin · 448 pages