I’m really pleased to say I am on the tour for A Ration Book Victory by Jean Fullerton on behalf of Rachel’s Random Resources. Thanks to Corvus Books and Rachel Gilbey for my copy of this book.
Jean Fullerton, the RNA-shortlisted queen of the East End, returns with the final nostalgic and heart-warming story of the Brogan family.
In the final days of war, only love will pull her through . . .
Queenie Brogan wasn’t always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Mahone. But when tragedy struck and Patrick’s narrow-minded sister, Nora, intervened, the lovers were torn apart.
Fate can be cruel, and when Queenie arrives in London she finds that Patrick Mahon is her parish priest, and that the love she had tried to suppress flares again in her heart.
But now in the final months of WW2, Queenie discovers Father Mahon is dying and must face losing him forever. Can she finally tell him the secret she has kept for over fifty years or will Nora once again come between them?
And if Queenie does decide to finally tell Patrick, could the truth destroy the Brogan family?
The final book in the Ration Book series,The Ration Book Victory takes us back to the Brogan family. A historical family saga that transported me so easily back in time.
This is my first journey with the Brogans and the Ration Book series and I loved it so much.
Queenie Brogan lives in the East End of London with her extended family. She is originally from Ireland and this book takes us back to her younger days in 1887. A time when she was known as Philomena and was a young girl full of dreams and hopes. We discover Queenie’s and Father Mahon’s story from the very beginning. Told over a dual timeline this is such an emotional story and a fitting end to the series.
To say it was a final book, and my first book in the series, Jean Fullerton, made it a delightful journey. The characters are really fleshed out so well. I really got comfy with this story and the telling of Queenie’s past made it even more real for me. I soon got to grips with the characters and found myself feeling like I knew them.
This is a book that almost invites you in to the world these characters inhabit. Even after just a few chapters I hated having to tear myself away from them all. The emotion I felt as I discovered Queenie’s back story surprised me. I was so invested in this that I have ordered the first book already!
The research that the author has put into this book is crystal clear. I was so immersed in both the timelines that I totally forgot the world around me. I really am looking forward to starting at the beginning and reading about their trials and tribulations as a family.
I really do recommend this for any readers out there who love historical and family sagas. It is such a rich and detailed story.
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Author Bio
Born and bred in East London Jean is a District Nurse by trade and has worked as a NHS manager and as a senior lecture in Health and Nursing Studies. She left her day job to become a full-time writer in 2015 and has never looked back.
In 2006 she won the Harry Bowling Prize and now has seventeen sagas published over three series all of which are set in East London.
She is an experienced public speaker with hundreds of WI and women’s club talks under her belt, plus for the past fifteen years she has sailed all over the world as an enrichment speaker and writing workshop leader on cruise ships.
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