I said on my Welcome page a while ago that I would have some exciting news to share with you in the middle of September. Here it is at last - I am delighted to tell you that in future I will also be writing as Polly Heron.
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My first book as Polly is called The Surplus Girls and will be published by Corvus Atlantic on January 2nd 2020 in paperback and e-book formats.
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Who were the surplus girls? The Great War wiped out a generation of young men and left behind a generation of young women who faced life without the probability of marriage, at a time when any girl left on the shelf rapidly became an old maid and no working woman could hope to earn what could be earned by a man. These were the ‘surplus girls’ – young women who had grown up assuming they would get married, but whose assumptions were dashed by the War; young women who, unexpectedly and without preparation, faced a lifetime of work and spinsterhood.
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 | The Surplus Girls is a family saga set in 1922, four years after the end of the Great War. The heroine is Belinda, who got engaged at 15 to Ben, who died near the end of the war. Now Belinda is approaching 21 and, although she will always hold Ben in a special place in her heart, she knows it is time for her to move on. But how can she, when Ben’s mother and grandmother, whom she lives with, are still deep in mourning? As for Belinda’s own family – well, her father has lost more jobs than you can shake a stick at, and her mother, worn down with shame, is clingy and demanding. |
When Belinda joins a secretarial class to try to better herself, little does she imagine that it will open up a whole new world to her. For not only does she learn to type, but she meets the beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson... and falls head over heels in love. But who is this man to whom she has entrusted with her heart, and what does he really want?
I hope you like the sound of The Surplus Girls. I loved writing it and I hope you will want to read Belinda's story.
Links:
The Surplus Girls on Kindle at:
Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Amazon Australia
The Surplus Girls in paperback
Polly Heron’s website
Polly Heron’s author page on Amazon |
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Also, since one of my grandmothers took a secretarial course for the reason your fictional Belinda did (and it also transformed her life), the story will resonate with me in that way too.
As for a bookshop owner hero...yes please!
Wishing you much success as Polly Heron and with this new series.