A Ration Book Wedding
Because in the darkest days of the Blitz, love is more important than ever.
It's February 1942 and the Americans have finally joined Britain and its allies. Meanwhile, twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino, like thousands of other women, is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by her unrequited love for Charlie Brogan, who has recently married a woman of questionable reputation, before being shipped out to North Africa with the Eighth Army.
When Francesca starts a new job as an Italian translator for the BBC Overseas Department, she meets handsome Count Leonardo D'Angelo. Just as Francesca has begun to put her hopeless love for Charlie to one side and embrace the affections of this charming and impressive man, Charlie returns from the front, his marriage in ruins and his heart burning for Francesca at last. Could she, a good Catholic girl, countenance an illicit affair with the man she has always longed for? Or should she choose a different, less dangerous path?
It's February 1942 and the Americans have finally joined Britain and its allies. Meanwhile, twenty-three-year-old Francesca Fabrino, like thousands of other women, is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by her unrequited love for Charlie Brogan, who has recently married a woman of questionable reputation, before being shipped out to North Africa with the Eighth Army.
When Francesca starts a new job as an Italian translator for the BBC Overseas Department, she meets handsome Count Leonardo D'Angelo. Just as Francesca has begun to put her hopeless love for Charlie to one side and embrace the affections of this charming and impressive man, Charlie returns from the front, his marriage in ruins and his heart burning for Francesca at last. Could she, a good Catholic girl, countenance an illicit affair with the man she has always longed for? Or should she choose a different, less dangerous path?
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Jean Fullerton is the author of thirteen novels all set in East London where she was born. She also a retired district nurse and university lecturer. She won the Harry Bowling prise in 2006 and after initially signing for two East London historical series with Orion she moved to Corvus, part of Atlantic Publishing and is halfway through her WW2 East London series featuring the Brogan family.
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My Review
The great thing about sagas is that the reader is already familiar with the characters in this book. We've followed the stories of the sisters in the brogan family and in this book it's the turn of family friend, Francesca. Secretly in love with her best friend's brother, Charlie, she knows that there is no chance for them as Charlie is married to Stella and has a baby boy.
With little choice but to make a life for herself, she embarks on a whirlwind courtship with the delectable Count, who is also. an Italian.
Jean Fullerton skilfully evokes the wartime era of the East End and seeing the war through Francesca's eyes adds another dimension. A really enjoyable addition to the series.
My Review
The great thing about sagas is that the reader is already familiar with the characters in this book. We've followed the stories of the sisters in the brogan family and in this book it's the turn of family friend, Francesca. Secretly in love with her best friend's brother, Charlie, she knows that there is no chance for them as Charlie is married to Stella and has a baby boy.
With little choice but to make a life for herself, she embarks on a whirlwind courtship with the delectable Count, who is also. an Italian.
Jean Fullerton skilfully evokes the wartime era of the East End and seeing the war through Francesca's eyes adds another dimension. A really enjoyable addition to the series.
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