Oh no! Not another World War II book! Yes, another one but with a slightly different viewpoint.
This is rather tough to describe. It's about a young girl in London during the war. She wants to be a war correspondent at a newspaper, but ends up typing responses to an advice column in a women's magazine. She also volunteers at the local fire station where calls come in at night after the bombings.
The book is a combination of romance and lightheartedness at times and then the gruesomeness of war at other times. It's also one of those stories where everything goes wrong at about the 90% mark and all seems to be lost...... and then suddenly everything turns around (quite predictably) and there's a happy ending.
It's interesting to read about women's roles in London during the Blitz and the death and destruction the citizens endured. All very eye-opening. So it's hard to describe the book as a "light" story, but it is a bit of a romance/chick lit kind of book. - June
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