A Mother’s Hope for the Cornish Girls

✍ Betty Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🌐 English ⚖ 419 KB

Can the bonds of motherhood give them the strength they’ll need to get through the war? St Ives, Spring 1943. After having given up her baby at seventeen, Sonya is inspired by her work at an orphanage to discover what happened to her daughter twenty-five years ago. Reunited, they struggle to bond

A Wedding for the Cornish Girls

✍ Betty Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2023 🌐 English ⚖ 427 KB

<Can love still thrive in the uncertainty of war? Summer 1943, Bude, Cornwall Alice,18, receives a mysterious war work summons to report to a special unit in Bude, a popular seaside resort in North Cornwall, but she’s not allowed to discuss it. Terrified but excited, she launches herself into trai

A Mother's Hope

✍ Flynn, Katie 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 218 KB

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. As the sirens begin and the bombs crash down, she is filled with panic and, with a heavy heart, abandons her burden in a sheltered doorway, meaning to return later. Even as she disappears in the resulting chaos, the bundle

Courage for the Cornish Girls

✍ Betty Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 401 KB

April 1942. Enemy gunfire on Penzance beach brings the Cornish Girls rushing to the rescue... Yearning for adventure, Demelza dreams of one day joining the fire wardens. But before she can do so, gunfire during a trip to the beach provides her with an unexpected opportunity to get stuck in. On hand

Victory for the Cornish Girls

✍ Betty Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2024 🌐 English ⚖ 803 KB

Will the Cornish girls come out on top once the war is finally over? Bude, Cornwall 1944. Even in Cornwall, the war shows no signs of slowing… When tragic circumstances force Alice to give up her spy training, she is distraught. That is, until she’s asked to join a specialist group of codebreaker

Courage for the Cornish Girls

✍ Betty Walker 📂 Fiction 📅 2022 🌐 English ⚖ 281 KB

April 1942. Enemy gunfire on Penzance beach brings the Cornish Girls rushing to the rescue... Yearning for adventure, Demelza dreams of one day joining the fire wardens. But before she can do so, gunfire during a trip to the beach provides her with an unexpected opportunity to get stuck in. On hand