The Library Girls Of The East End written by Patricia McBride and published by Boldwood Books

Firstly I'm going to start this review by saying how much I loved and adored this book.

You therefore can’t begin to imagine my delight when I found out that it is the first in a new series! (Skips with delight!)

It’s 1940, war is starting to ramp up and we meet Cordelia, she comes from a well-to-do family and has to tell her snobby mother that she has just got a job as the Head Librarian at Silver Town library in the East End of London in 1940. We are then introduced to Cordelia’s new colleagues Jane and Mavis and regulars of the library. Together they work well coming up with ideas on how the library can help the community and with that enters doctor Robert Fernsby who uses one of their rooms as a surgery for the people of Silver Town.

This book was wonderful and was so easy to read and I raced through it. I absolutely loved it and I'm delighted that it is the first in a new series and I can't wait to hear what happens next to the Library Girls Of the East End.

Run, don't walk, to your bookshop to grab a copy of this - you won't be disappointed!

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