A New Home in the Dales

Roberta Bancroft is working as a typist and a reluctant tea lady at a London newspaper, she finds it rather frustrating as she wants to be a journalist. A position for a junior reporter is advertised in the Yorkshire Dales, the magazine is called, The Tyke and Reggie Atherton is the editor. Bobby fe......more

She's gone from city to village...but can she ever fit in? I wasn't going to start another series (I have far too many on the go as it is) but this is a delightfully easy read with a gentle pace and some laugh out loud moments. I like how the main focus is not of the war and everyone "doing their......more

did i do it again? yes guillty, i started to read a new series again. Do i regret it? no, i loved it with all my heart. in this book we follow bobby and her move to the dales. i just loved the characters the quirky ones, the salt to the sea ones, the just airy ones. i loved the atmosphere , the slow......more

I really liked this story. I felt quite involved with Bobby, the character this story revolves around. She had a dream to be a reporter for a newspaper, and was determined to not let romance get in her way. But it was a time few women were accepted in this arena,and her job consisted more of making......more

A delightful old-fashioned easy-read novel set in the Yorkshire Dales. As I know Silverdale and read the Dalesman Magazine for many years, it was like a walk in the past, in the best way. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an advance digital review copy.......more