Beach View Boarding House [03] Keep Smiling Through

✍ Scribed by Dean, Ellie

• Book ID: 108963330
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Series: Beach View Boarding House 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work, seventeen-year-old Rita Smith has plenty of people to turn to in the close-knit community of Cliffhaven. Until Italy sides with Germany and Rita's closest friends and neighbours are interned as enemies of the state.

As war rages across Europe, Rita is more determined than ever to do her bit for the war effort. Although she is forced to give up her dream of joining the WAAF, she volunteers as a fire warden. When her own home is destroyed Rita vows she will not lose spirit and throws herself into doing her bit for king and country, longing for the day when she is reunited with those she loves best...

About the Author

Ellie Dean is the author of Far From Home and There'll be Blue Skies.