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Home fires and spitfires / Daisy Styles.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LP STYL	Large Print		Campsie .	. On Loan .	31 Oct 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780750549509
Name	Styles, Daisy author
Title	Home fires and spitfires / Daisy Styles.
Edition	Large print edition.
Published	Leicester : Thorpe, Magna, 2022.
Description	390 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Summary	1940. Tucked on the edge of the Lake District lies Mary Vale, a Mother and Baby Home open to unmarried women. Amongst the residents, three very different mums-to-be are brought together in friendship. Shipyard welder Gracie Price, pregnant by a married man, is angry at her own foolishness. The father of WAAF Diana Bishop's unborn baby had been eager to marry her by special licence, but now he's missing in action. Widowed Zelda Fischer has travelled miles to reach the sanctuary of the home - although she is a Jewish refugee, the other residents resent the presence of a German in their midst. Meanwhile, Ward Sister Ada Dale is growing close to the new doctor, Jamie Reid...
Target audience note	Adult.
Subjects	World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction
	Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
	Female friendship -- Fiction
	Lake District (England) -- Fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Genre	Large type books
Series	Wartime midwives 2.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Domestic fiction . Female friendship -- Fiction . Lake District (England) -- Fiction . Large type books . Unmarried mothers -- Fiction . World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Fiction . Authors: Styles, Daisy . Series: Wartime midwives .