A Store at War. Joanna Toye

A Store at War - Joanna Toye


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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Joanna Toye 2019

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019

      Cover photography © Johnny Ring (model), Alamy and Shutterstock.com (all other images)

      Joanna Toye asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008298234

      Ebook Edition © January 2019 ISBN: 9780008298241

      Version: 2020-05-04

       Dedication

       For my grandmothers – and all the women of their generation.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Author’s Note

       Keep Reading …

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Chapter 1

       June, 1941

      ‘Well? Will I do?’

      Lily Collins hovered in the doorway of the small back parlour. Her brother Sid, shirt sleeves, flannels, wavy blond hair, broad shoulders – Sid was the looker of the family, and no mistake – his injured foot propped up on a stool, glanced up from his Picturegoer magazine.

      ‘Come in, then, Sis, give us a closer look!’

      Coming in was just what she didn’t want to do. What she wanted, no, needed, to do was to get Sid’s swift approval, then shoot out of the house faster than a firecracker before her mum could see that Lily had dabbed on a bit of her powder and even (before quickly


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