I really enjoyed this book and was so pleased to discover that this book was a follow-up to Pocketful of Dreams which I had also read and enjoyed and had wondered what had happened to Mattie and the Brogan family from Mafeking Terrace.
This book is more focused on Jo (Josephine Margaret Brogan) and her young brother Billy and at the beginning of the book we find them billetted at a grocers store near Colchester in Essex, where neither of them are happy. Jo gets a letter from her sister Mattie, but had been wishing for one from Tommy Sweete. Running away from their billett they arrive back in London and that night the bombs rained down on them as they sheltered in the communal shelter. Is Tommy the boyfriend she hoped he would be or is he two timing her? As Jo can drive she joins the London Ambulance Service and here she meets up with Tommy again, but is he doing somewhat dodgy dealings as part of his war work with his brother as part of the Heavy Squad?
What follows is lots of secrets, blitz action and many family emotions, culminating in a Christmas to remember.
A lovely wartime saga and I hope that this is not the last we hear about the Brogan family.
A five star read from me.
This book is more focused on Jo (Josephine Margaret Brogan) and her young brother Billy and at the beginning of the book we find them billetted at a grocers store near Colchester in Essex, where neither of them are happy. Jo gets a letter from her sister Mattie, but had been wishing for one from Tommy Sweete. Running away from their billett they arrive back in London and that night the bombs rained down on them as they sheltered in the communal shelter. Is Tommy the boyfriend she hoped he would be or is he two timing her? As Jo can drive she joins the London Ambulance Service and here she meets up with Tommy again, but is he doing somewhat dodgy dealings as part of his war work with his brother as part of the Heavy Squad?
What follows is lots of secrets, blitz action and many family emotions, culminating in a Christmas to remember.
A lovely wartime saga and I hope that this is not the last we hear about the Brogan family.
A five star read from me.