Christmas on the Home Front Annie Clarke 

    

Christmas on the Home Front Factory Girls Book 4 
Paperback published by arrow books 29th October 2020

Paperback ISBN.  9781787462601

Tis the reason for friendship and family.

October 1942: As Christmas approaches, the evacuees decide a pantomime is just what the village of Massingham needs.

Viola loves her new job away from the factory, and hopes that her romance with the handsome Ralph might have a happy ending. Meanwhile, married life is proving tough for Fran and Davey as they are forced apart by war work and an unexpected arrival on her doorstep turns her world upside down.

Following her husband’s shock confession, Beth finally feels as though she’s regaining control of her life, that is until he turns up . . .

A lot can happen on the home front, but Christmas is a time for family and friends, and the factory girls will do everything they can to ensure this year’s celebration is one to remember. 

My review

Christmas on the Home Front is the fourth novel by Annie Clarke, it’s wonderfully uplifting Factory Girls series about three women working in a munitions factory during World War 2.  Books by Annie Clarke are perfect for fans of Elaine Everest. As I like reading books by Elaine Everest, I found my self easily glued to my first book that I have read by Annie Clarke Christmas on the Home Front. 

Part of chapter one page 5 &6 

The girls copied Mrs Hall, first making a slip stitch onto a needle, then winding the wool around their thumbs, while Sarah muttered, But that’s all very well, Mrs Hall,for though Eva’s got us down as certainties, we still haven’t Mrs Hall continued to cast on and rode over her. Agreement’s nowt to do with owt, our Sarah and it’ll be good for you all to be involved in a party. And you know you want to send Melaine off nicely, for we’ll all miss her. They came as a pack, those barns. 

And as one, Sarah laughed. Mrs Hall nodded. That’s about right, little devils, but really it will for you all. For a start,it’ll take Fran’s mind of Davey, and calm Beth’s rage when she gets to thinking about her Bob and that divorce he wants. And let’s not miss you out Sarah, still swooning over our Stan,though you’ve been married, what, over seven months? If he’s busy at the Hall after his shift, sorting the tree or what ever else Nairn decrees, then you’ll be there, so might as well give you something to do. 

Concentrate, Fran. Dig that needle into the wool round your thumb, now you’ve finally made your slip knot. By, look st that pigs ear never seen such a do over a bitty cast n stitch.

Annie Clarke has 4 books in the Home Front saga series. 

 Book 1. Girls on the Home Front 

  Book 2. Heros on the Home Front
  Book 3. Wedding Bells on the Home Front

   Book 4. Christmas on the Home Front 

Annie Clarke’s roots are dug deep into the North East. She draws inspiration from her mother, who was born in a County Durham pit village during the First World War, and went on to become a military nurse during World War Two. Annie and her husband now live a stone’s throw from the pit village where her mother was born. She has written frequently about the North East in novels which she hopes reflect her love and respect for the region’s lost mining communities.

Annie has four adult children and four granddaughters, who fill her and her husband’s days with laughter, endlessly leading these two elders astray.