The Bluebird Girls
The Bluebird Girls 1
by Rosie Archer
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Pub Date Apr 04 2019 | Archive Date Apr 03 2019
Quercus Books | Quercus
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Description
The most heartwarming new wartime series of 2019.
Hampshire, 1939, and three young women are about to get the break of a lifetime.
Rainey Bird, Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey, music has been a solace during the upheaval of starting a new life with her mother, away from her abusive dad. Bea finds a confidence when she sings that she cannot get from anything else. Ivy sees it as her best chance of making a life away from Gosport and a dead-end job.
The three of them sing in a choir run by the strict but kind Mrs Wilkes. The choir provides a couple of hours of stardust each week, away from school and work and family worries.
When war breaks out, though, dreams must be put on hold. It seems that local pantomimes and charity shows are as far as the girls will be able to go, despite Mrs Wilkes's faith in their talent. That is, until a mysterious stranger arrives with a proposition that just might change their lives...
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787473966 |
| PRICE | £6.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 352 |
Featured Reviews
Alexandra W, Reviewer
This is a lovely book. I have never read anything by Rosie Archer before and I’m sure I’ll read more of them in the future. Especially the next book in this series.
Rainey Bird and her mother Jo, are trying to establish a new life for themselves after doing a midnight flit from the home they shared with her abusive farther. In making a new start for themselves they are invited to join a local choir that is connected to Rainey’s school. By the choirs strict leader Mrs Wilkes.
There they meet and make new friends and Mrs Wilkes puts Rainey together with two other girls called Ivy Sparrow who she already knows from school and Bea Herron, who is a couple of years older. The girls get on well together and Mrs Wilkes knows that they will make a formidable trio. Everyone enjoys their Wednesday evening singing in the choir as its something to look forward to.
Just as things seem to be going smoothly war breaks out and all the theatres are closed down. Meaning the choirs only chance to preform will either be in a local pantomime or in a charity show.
In the mean time Rainey’s farther Alfie has died in the war by sacrificing himself. Just before he sacrificed himself he left a photograph of his daughter and some letter asking the other man to find his daughter who sings like and angel. This stranger get injured on the beaches of Dunkirk so his mission to find Alfie’s daughter are put on hold. When he man recovers and finds the daughter he may be able to change not only Rainey’s future but Ivy and Bea’s futures too.
Susan Anne B, Reviewer
Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. Sometimes it is good to read a nice old fashioned story about 3 friends in 1939. Loved it.
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