I’m here yet again! I’m part of the blog tour for A Fond Farewell For The Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Boldwood Books for the gifted ebook to write my honest review.
It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices.
May 1945 – VE Day
After battling against the odds, the three friends are uncertain of their futures.
Maisie Miles must wait on tenterhooks for Japan to surrender and for poor Sid to return home. Will they still be sweethearts and have a future together? But tragedy strikes when Maisie’s lodger Carole dies leaving 2-year-old Paula orphaned, Maisie is determined to keep the child she has grown to love as her own.
Meanwhile Bridget O’Neill’s husband has been patiently waiting her arrival in America but Bridget’s been struggling to leave her family and friends behind. Will she stay or will she go?
Phyllis Fairbrother receives the devastating news that husband Mick has relapsed and suffering a life changing diagnosis. Their dreams of a new life in Australia lie in tatters, or so she thinks.
With a new dawn, there are high hopes and boundless dreams.
Can the Tobacco Girls unite once more to overcome life’s troubles and find the happiness they so deserve?
The final instalment in the Tobacco Girls series. A Fond Farewell For The Tobacco Girls is a book I was so looking forward to reading. On the other hand, it’s a series I didn’t want to end.
These women are like my friends, and I found this to be a fitting end. It focuses on the post-war years. Phyllis, Maisie, and Bridget are together again in Bristol. Each having suffered in their own personal ways, so they are marked by the war as so many people were.
It was a rollercoaster of a read for me as the ups and downs of the women’s lives continue. I was glued to the book as the pages flew by. As I got closer to the end, I attempted to make it last longer. I didn’t want it to end. I have lived through 6 books with these characters, and as I say, they feel like friends.
Lizzie Lane has the knack for transporting the reader back in time. Her settings are so well described and detailed. The research she does must be immense! I love this series, I always feel like I learn things about the time period when I read a Lizzie Lane book.
The Tobacco Girls will be sorely missed by me. If you love historical saga’s that have characters with heart and settings you can travel to from your chair, pick up one of these books. Lizzie Lane is one of my favourite authors!
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Lizzie Lane is the author of over 50 books, a number of which have been bestsellers. She was born and bred in Bristol where many of her family worked in the cigarette and cigar factories. This has inspired her saga series for Boldwood The Tobacco Girls.
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