Elsie's Wartime Wish

Can she keep her family together...or will secrets tear them apart...? I read and loved the first book in this wonderful heartwarming series "Jeannie's War" and it was wonderful to revisit some of the minor characters from that first book. But this time they were the focus of the story. Jeann......more

From Elsie's perspective, life in the Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow during wartime is far from easy. She is a young girl, burdened with the responsibility of trying to hold her family together. Her mother, often lost in a drunken stupor, is unable to provide the care and stability they desperate......more

Can she keep her family together, Kiltie Street Girls book two, 1943 Glasgow, Louise Weir wants Elsie to bring her sister Jessie home from Mr and Mrs Cranston in Perthshire, WW2 is still raging but they have not had any raids in a while, her mother still a gin drinkers and bad with her nerves and El......more

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. My parents met when working at a police Report Centre during WW2 and the novel brought back to me many of the stories that they told about this harrowing time. I thought that the author did a first-class job in catching the dialogue of the time and of Glasgow in parti......more

3.5 but rounding up to 4. Another really lovely story by Carol McLean. I loved reading about Elsie, Doris and Annie. They were such lovely, caring characters who did their best for one another during the dark days of the war. The ending was so lovely. It really made me smile. I hope there'll be anoth......more