

A Wartime Secret
Author: Helen Yendall
Narrator: Kitty Kelly
Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HQ Digital
Published: 03/17/2022
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction, Romance, Women, Friendship
Author: Helen Yendall
Narrator: Kitty Kelly
Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HQ Digital
Published: 03/17/2022
Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction, Romance, Women, Friendship
A Wartime Secret by Helen Yendall is an epic novel set during 1940 that mesmerized me from the start. The reader hears about life on the homefront as we follow a group of bank employees as they are relocated from London to the Cotswolds during the height of the Blitz. We see the camaraderie between t......more
Anybody who knows me really well knows that not only am I a book geek, but I am also a history nerd with a special interest in the Second World War. So imagine my excitement when I read the synopsis for ‘A Wartime Secret’. Let’s just say I was a happy like book nerd geek. I dived straight into the b......more
This book was atmospheric and authentically portrayed the WW2 period with brilliant attention to detail. I loved some of the character's turns of phrase, their dialogue and ways of speaking, and although there are quite a few characters, they were all distinct from one another. Maggie's personal jou......more
It is WW2 and Maggie takes a new job at Rosman's Merchant Bank. On her first morning she is late because the siren goes and she gets stuck on her bus. When she arrives at work she finds the whole bank is planning to move to the country for the duration of the war. Maggie is sure she will not be able......more
This has one of the most enticing openings I've read in a long time - 'Maggie Corbett lay face down on the open platform of the number 56 bus ... ' which was a great introduction to the believable and feisty Maggie. I've read a lot of books set in WW2 but I learned two new things from this one: 1) s......more