Dancing at the Victory Cafe
β Scribed by Fleming, Leah
- Book ID
- 108997324
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781471159121
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When Isobel Morton takes over the cafΓ© in Lichfield's market square, she has big plans. Soon renamed The Victory CafΓ©, with a menu that delights despite rations, the girls who work at the Vic are swept away by Belle's lust for life.
Among the regular customers is a trio of soldiers from the nearby American base and waitress Dorrie Goodman soon befriends them, learning about jazz and romance in the process. But the stifling morality of a Midlands town in the 40s cannot accommodate such a friendship; jealously, hatred and the weight of public disapproval combine to precipitate a tragedy.
It is not until many years after the war that friendship and reconciliation can begin to heal the wounds of the past ...
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