Home for Christmas

Name: Home for Christmas
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Annie Groves
ISBN: 9780007440580

Author: Annie Groves

Narrator: Sue Jenkins

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/27/2011

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

Home for Christmas is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain. It's September 1940 and the German blitz on London has just begun. The four young girls who live at No. 13 Article Row live under its constant threat. But life must go on… Tilly and Sally both work at Barts Hospital where they witness the cruelty of war first-hand. Agnes volunteers to work extra hours at her underground station to help with the nightly influx of people seeking safety from the bombs. Dulcie, with her broken ankle, tries to make peace with her mother, following the news of the death of her sister Enid. But her grief-stricken mother doesn't want to know. Sally returns to her painful past in Liverpool. But it's not seeing the man she once loved, nor her father and ex-best fiend's child that hurt most… As Christmas approaches, the arrival of the handsome young American Drew, ignites new life in the heart Tilly thought was broken. As the bombs continue to rain down on a frosty London, perilous challenges lay around every corner. And all anyone wants this year is to be home for Christmas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley on December 03, 2017

Loved this book and I really couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Lainy on January 01, 2018

Time taken to read - In and out over 3 days Pages - 311 Publisher - Harper Collins Source - The Works Blurb from Goodreads 'Home for Christmas' is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence - as well as love, passion and heartbreak - for the very f......more

Goodreads review by Kim on December 19, 2011

I have a real soft spot for books set around the second world war and I really enjoyed this one. It felt as though it was set up for a sequel and I would love to read more about these characters. I wasn't ready to let them go! I have a few christmassy books out of the library and this one leapt to t......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on December 26, 2013

Annie Groves's saga following four women on the London homefront during the early days of World War II continues in Home for Christmas. Picking up just a few short weeks after the conclusion of London Belles, which saw Olive, her daughter Tilly, and their lodgers Sally, Agnes, and Dulcie survive the......more

Goodreads review by Clare on March 04, 2015

This story follows four women in London during the Blitz. One of them, Sally, has come from Liverpool, and at the start, after a description of a pre-war Christmas day, we get a rather melodramatic account of why she chose to leave Liverpool for London - I thought it unnecessary. This girl refuses t......more

Quotes

Praise for Home for Christmas: ‘Read with a mince pie in hand’ The Sun Praise for Annie Groves: ‘An engrossing story’ My Weekly ‘A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate story’ Liverpool Daily Post ‘Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure – a tragic indictment of what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!’ Take a Break ‘Written from the heart’ My Weekly