Tomboy, Shelley BlantonStroud
Tomboy, Shelley BlantonStroud
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Tomboy
A Jane Benjamin Novel

Author: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Narrator: April Doty

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/16/2022

Synopsis

It’s 1939. Jane’s got five days at sea to solve the murder of a Wimbledon champion’s coach and submit a gossip column that tells the truth. If not the facts... On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane’s got a plan: she’ll become the San Francisco Prospect’s first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie.Jane finagles her way to the women’s championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown’s tennis phenom and cover girl Tommie O’Rourke. She plans to write her first column there. But then she witnesses Edith “Coach” Carlson, Tommie’s closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack, and her plan is thrown off track.While sailing home on the RMS Queen Mary, Jane veers between competing instincts: Should she write a social bombshell column, personally damaging her new friend Tommie’s persona and career? Or should she work to uncover the truth of Coach’s death, which she now knows was a murder, and its connection to a larger conspiracy involving US participation in the coming war?Putting away her menswear and donning first-class ballgowns, Jane discovers what upper-class status hides, protects, and destroys. Ultimately—like nations around the globe in 1939—she must choose what she’ll give up in order to do what’s right.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on March 20, 2023

TITLE: TOM BOY SERIES: A Jane Benjamin Novel AUTHOR: Shelley Blanton-Stroud PUB DATE: 06.28.2022 Now Available I first read Copy Boy in the summer of 2020 and still remember how much I loved it - keeping me up turning those pages as a young woman takes her brother’s identity escaping an abusive father.......more

Goodreads review by Chantal on February 07, 2022

Haiku ... Tennis and intrigue Great Depression devours As the war creeps close . . Battling her scruples Such is the gossip of life Mystery entwines . . No easy path here Consequences are shadows Frenemies surround . . Bourbon to be swilled Merry Champagne to be poured Pig and whistle lore . . 4.5......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on October 29, 2021

Tom Boy’s Jane Benjamin, who grew out of a 1937, dust-bowl, Okie, Hooverville tent camp, is a quintessential heroine for right now—gritty, gutsy, gender-bending, and driven to fulfill her journalistic ambitions in the male-centric bars and smoke-filled backrooms of the San Francisco newspaper world,......more

Goodreads review by Linda on February 14, 2023

Shelley Blanton-Stroud, the author of “Tom Boy,” has written an intriguing and suspenseful novel. The genres for this novel are Historical Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, and Fiction. The timeline for the story is 1939. The author vividly describes her characters as complex and complicated. This is the......more

Goodreads review by Joy on December 15, 2022

MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK @IREADBOOKTOURS I didn’t read the first book in this series, but I had no problems getting to know Jane and what was taking place in this book. She is trying to master raising a toddler as well as her job as a tomboy reporter while dressed in her finest young man’s clothes. An......more

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