The Home Front Girls: Book 3
Publication Date: September 30, 2024
The Blitz won’t break their spirits. And with Christmas approaching, can love really conquer all?
Manchester, December 1940: this winter, the girls boarding at Star House – Betty, Sally and Lorna – are determined to keep a stiff upper lip. Their friendship, and a bit of festive cheer, is all they need during the nightly blackouts.
But for former spoiled debutante Lorna – now dedicated to caring for the bombed-out and wounded with the Women’s Voluntary Service – the past is about to come calling. When the devastating Christmas Blitz reunites her with her ex-fiancé George… Through the bombs, Lorna’s new-found pluck helps them work side-by-side to save a young mother trapped under the rubble, despite Lorna’s heartbreak at seeing George again…
Because not only does charming George have a new girl on his arm: he’s doing nothing to help King and country. But as air raids and rescue missions throw George and Lorna together time and again, it becomes clear that nothing about his visit to Manchester is what it seems. And he desperately needs Lorna’s help…
Can George and Lorna work together, despite everything that happened between them? Will Lorna’s courage to do all she can for the war effort be enough to save George? And when snow begins to fall on a New Year’s Day shattered by the Luftwaffe, will she allow her heart to open once more?
The thought of spending Christmas in a bomb shelter may not sound ideal, but the girls staying at Star House are eager for the holidays.
Author Susanna Bavin delivers the third installment in tThe Home Front Girls series with Christmas for the Home Front Girls. While the story continues to build on characters featured in earlier installments, it can easily be read as a standalone.
The tone is light-hearted as opposed to other World War II stories filled with angst and heartbreak. Betty and Sally have both been paired up, which leaves Lorna. However, she must face her past before being able to move forward.
The author effectively captures the mood as the young women weather blackouts and family challenges.
Christmas for the Home Front Girls serves as an interesting next chapter for the young women at Star House.
Susanna Bavin has written 4 standalone sagas and her new WW2 trilogy, The Home Front Girls, will be published by Bookouture in 2024. She also writes as Polly Heron (The Surplus Girls 1920s saga series) and Maisie Thomas (The Railway Girls WW2 saga series)
Susanna lives on the beautiful North Wales coast with her husband and their two rescue cats. She is originally from Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, where her family has lived for several generations and which provides the setting for her family sagas.
