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The Light Over London: The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year
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The Light Over London: The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year

Julia Kelly
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A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country

2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever…

1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is swept off her feet. Then Paul is sent to war and Louise, defying her mother’s wishes, ends up a gunner girl in London.

Watching the pitch-black skies for bombers, Louise finds comfort recording her dreams in her diary. And as Cara reads her words, decades later, she learns that hope can be found even in the darkest of times, she just needs to take a chance…

Discover the story of the remarkable World War Two gunner girls in this entrancing and heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of Martha Hall Kelly’s The Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 October 2019
Pages
304
ISBN
9781409189374

A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country

2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever…

1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is swept off her feet. Then Paul is sent to war and Louise, defying her mother’s wishes, ends up a gunner girl in London.

Watching the pitch-black skies for bombers, Louise finds comfort recording her dreams in her diary. And as Cara reads her words, decades later, she learns that hope can be found even in the darkest of times, she just needs to take a chance…

Discover the story of the remarkable World War Two gunner girls in this entrancing and heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of Martha Hall Kelly’s The Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 October 2019
Pages
304
ISBN
9781409189374

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