The Quality Street Girls, Penny Thorpe
The Quality Street Girls, Penny Thorpe
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The Quality Street Girls

Author: Penny Thorpe

Narrator: Sherry Baines

Unabridged: 11 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 11/15/2018


Synopsis

A delicious and heartwarming novel featuring the girls working at the nation’s favourite wrapped chocolate factory. At sixteen years old, Irene ‘Reenie’ Calder is leaving school with little in the way of qualifications. She is delighted to land a seasonal job at Mackintosh’s Quality Street factory. Reenie feels like a kid let loose in a sweet shop, but trouble seems to follow her around and it isn’t long before she falls foul of the strict rules. Diana Moore runs the Toffee Penny line and has worked hard to secure her position. Beautiful and smart, the other girls in the factory are in awe of her, but Diana has a dark secret which if exposed, could cost her not only her job at the factory but her reputation as well. When a terrible accident puts supply of Quality Street at risk, Reenie has a chance to prove herself. The shops are full of Quality Street lovers who have saved up all year for their must-have Christmas treat. Reenie and Diana know that everything rests on them, if they are to give everyone a Christmas to remember…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley

Set in the 1930's when Quality street chocolates where first produced. I felt like I had been transported back in time watching the workers hand wrapping and filling the tins of Quality street in the run up to Christmas. It must have been very tempting working on the Quality street line with the del......more

Goodreads review by Dale

Irene, ‘Reenie,’ Calder is excited to score a seasonal job at Mackintosh’s Quality Street factory. Reenie is a real people person. She makes friends easily. She makes friends with Mary and Bess, two sisters at the factory. But Reenie is also a person who manages to get herself into trouble too often......more

Goodreads review by Keriann

Thank you to the publisher and Netgally for sending me a copy of this book for review. The Quality Street Girls focuses on four girls working in the Macintosh Toffee Factory during the 1930's. Rennie lands her first ever job on the strawberry cream line and is determined to be the fastest and quickes......more


Quotes

‘This novel will give you a craving for toffee pennies’ Sunday Express ‘A lovely nostalgic read’ My Weekly