A01=Joan Bakewell
Author_Joan Bakewell
Brown Book Group
Category1=Fiction
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=135
IMPN=Virago Press Ltd
ISBN13=9781844085316
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20100401
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
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PUB=Little
SMM=25
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
WG=256
WMM=211
Product details
- ISBN 9781844085316
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 256g
- Dimensions: 211 x 135 x 25mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely, essentially serious Cynthia Maitland, who lost her lover in the First World War, believes the idea will broaden the horizons of her girls, especially Polly and Jen, bright sixth formers eager to live and love despite it all.
All is as it should be in the line of duty until Captain Josh Percival and his officers of the SS Treverran visit Ashworth . . . The choices that follow will disrupt all their lives, reverberating even to the next generation, when, decades later, life and love are on the line again.
A prominent figure in TV and the arts in Britain, Joan Bakewell has been a broadcaster for over forty years, a print journalist for over twenty years, and has published her autobiography, THE CENTRE OF THE BED. ALL THE NICE GIRLS is her first novel. She was made Dame in 2008.
