December 31, 1939 was the first New Year’s Eve that anyone could remember that there hadn’t been crowds celebrating at midnight in Trafalgar Square. So begins 1940 for the waitresses at the Lyons Corner House at Marble Arch. Kiss the Girls Goodbye follows the lives of the five waitresses we met in Corner House Girls, observing their families, boyfriends, husbands, customers, and friends through the harrowing period of the Second World War. There are bombs and blackouts, curfews and rationing, romances and terrible losses, but through it all, come what may, the Corner House will be open for business.
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Some of Lilian Harry's earliest memories are of nights spent in a Portsmouth air-raid shelter, listening to the drone of enemy aircraft. But they are also of warm family life continuing in spite of the fears and anxieties of the time. Lilian Harry has written for Mills and Boon and for Headline, before turning to the breakout Street At War series.
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Hi,I am Lilian Harry and am delighted to welcome you to my Author Central page. I've been writing for a long time now, under the name Donna Baker as well as Lilian Harry, and most of my books are classed as 'historical novels', including those set during the Second World War (which is slightly hurtful, since I remember it....) I grew up near Portsmouth in Hampshire, have lived in Devon, Herefordshire and the Lake District (my favourite place!) and am now back in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor, where I am out every day walking my miniature schnauzer. Apart from writing, I ring bells, take part in amateur dramatics, go to concerts, theatre etc, read and play bridge - but only with very tolerant, forgiving people who like me a lot. (Or on the computer!) I would like to be cloned so that I can do all these things simultaneously.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A powerful image of London in the early days of WW2,
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This review is from: Kiss the Girls Goodbye (Corner House Girls 2) (Paperback)
Amazingly powerful writing. It took my breath away. The pace and depth of the detail and quality this work shows is fantastic. Normally a sequal does not measure up to the first.However this book overshadows its first by far. The emotive writing that was shown in 'Corner House girls' is carried through into the second book. The passion the characters show fulfills all imagination. Every loose end is carried through or tied up, leaving no room for doubt as to how the reader wants each character to develop. These wishes are not all fulfilled but the story benefits from these changes and grows, if possible, even stronger. A great read, again and again. When will another be produced to carry on the story of these much loved characters.
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