A Look Back in Photographs

Posted on 7th July, 2023
The Surplus Girls (book 1) has made it past 1000 ratings & reviews. Isn't that wonderful? Huge thanks to everyone who has left their feedback. It makes such a difference.


Here are some of the book's highlights in photographs:

 

This was its appearance as a forthcoming publication in The Bookseller. An exciting moment!

 

That wonderful moment when the box of author copies arrived.

 

Publication day flowers from my lovely writer chums, Jane Cable, Cass Grafton, Kitty Wilson and Kirsten Hesketh.

 

The Surplus Girls was the first of my books to be sold on supermarket shelves. It was stocked by Sainsbury's and quickly sold out, prompting Sainsbury's to bring in more copies.

 

The first library shelfie!

 

 

Then came the audio book, narrated of course by Julia Franklin, who narrates all my books under all three of my names.

 

Here is the large print cover.

 

So many happy memories! Thank you to everyone for your support.

 

 

Blurb:

 

After the loss of war, can there be hope for the future?

Manchester, 1922.

Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of her beloved fiancé, Ben. After four years of mourning, she's ready to face the future, even though Ben's family is not happy to see her move on, and her own only cares about getting hold of her meagre factory wages.

Then, Belinda joins a secretarial class and a whole new world opens up to her as she quickly finds herself drawn to beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson. But after all the loss and devastation she has experienced, can she really trust him with her heart?

The first in a quartet of sagas set during the early 1920s, following three Surplus Girls - those women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, after the deaths of millions of young men, and the new lives they forged for themselves.

 

 

Link to the Surplus Girls series page on Amazon.

 

 

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Such a wonderful book and series & lovely ‘photographic journey’ too. Congratulations! xx
On 14th July, 2023 by Jen Gilroy (website: https://www.jengilroy.com)