The Brooklands Girls is the heartfelt sequel to The Poppy Girls, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.
The Brooklands Girls is the heartfelt sequel to The Poppy Girls, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.
It is the early 1920s and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her brave work as an ambulance driver and nurse close to the Front, Pips is restless and without purpose. Determined to enjoy life after the years of misery, and to help her forget a broken love affair, she seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring Twenties.No family or community escaped the ravages of this war, and Pips knows her own has its share of troubles. Her brother, Robert, returned injured and is now battling demons of his own. Struggling to find a purpose in life, he is convinced his career as a doctor is over. It is Pips’s young niece, Daisy, on whom the family dotes, who brings them joy and hope for the future.But when faces from the past reappear, Pips is posed with a dilemma. Can she ever trust a man’s promises and allow herself to love again?
'Queen of Saga.' -- A.L.Kennedy, Booker-listed author
Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and sobegan her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she hadher first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by a number of further titles including The Clippie Girls, Fairfield Hall and Welcome Home. Margaret is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Kate Rawson is an actress, musician and voiceover artist originally from Cornwall. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Her theatre credits range from an adolescent boy to a Shakespearean heroine, while on TV she has played a drunken witch in Casualty, been shot and killed in Holby City and played an enthusiastic mother in ITV drama Doc Martin. Kate regularly records audiobooks and has voiced all manner of computer-game characters.
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