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Review: The Butlins Girls

The Butlins Girls The Butlins Girls by Elaine Everest
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book tells the story of Molly whose parents have recently been killed in a car accident just after the end of WW2.

With an ironmongers business to sort out, Molly is busy sorting out her parents affairs, until Harriet and Simon turn up out of the blue, claiming to be family, and insisting that her Mum and Dad stated in their Will that the house was left to them! With Simon getting more and more threatening every day, Molly decides to move away until their solicitor comes back from Europe to sort out their affairs, and she gets a job at Butlins as a Redcoat where she meets up with Plum and Bunty on her first day and the three of them forge a friendship.

I really, really wanted to love this story and in fairness, it was nicely written, however if I am truly honest, I found the plot a bit flaky...Molly moved out of London, in fear of her "cousin" and "aunt" but took managed to find the strength of character to take on a murderer and reporter in Butlins! It felt like the author wanted to write a story about Butlins, but wasn't sure how to get her character there in the first place.

The one thing that annoyed me more than anything else, was the American spelling - realisation became realization and organisation became organization...why?!



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