Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey

 
Leaving Boston and their jobs to become Red Cross Clubmobile Girls is where we meet Viv, Dottie, and Fiona.

They all had different reasons for joining the Red Cross, but besides being a volunteer, Fiona's other reason was to find her missing fiance, Danny.

When they arrive in London, a buzz bomb greets them and scares them to death.


WE FOLLOW THE three friends through their seven-day training in all areas and share their fears and their fun during the training and in their jobs as Red Cross Clubmobile Girls as they moved from one place to the other.

The women seemed like a lot of fun and made the best of their time even though they were in dangerous war zones and some of the men weren’t too happy to have women to worry about along with everyone else.  But....the men were also happy to have some pretty women to remind them of home and their mothers, sisters, daughters, or girlfriends.

Ms. Healey brought you into the story with her light-hearted writing and wonderful research.

Her descriptions of the dresses the characters wore was swoon worthy, and the landscape descriptions were equally as good.

I enjoyed learning about these women and this program and how these women helped during the war. 


You will laugh and cry along with them and laugh and cry at their bravery and sweet demeanor.

Despite the main story line about war, THE BEANTOWN GIRLS was an enjoyable read
filled with friendship, caring, love, and of course tears and sadness.  

Historical fiction fans and women's fiction fans will love this book.

You will definitely need tissues, and we all should be thankful for the men and women who suffered and died so we could have our freedom.

A beautiful tribute and history lesson...thanks for sharing and for your marvelous research, Ms. Healey.  5/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NETGALLEY in exchange for an honest review.


17 comments:

  1. LOVED this book.

    Have you read it yet?

    Thanks for stopping.

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  2. I love reading about strong women so I think I'd like this one too.

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    1. It is such a marvelous book, Kathy.

      Thanks for commenting.

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  3. Great review as always Elizabeth, sounds really good!

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    1. Thank you so much about my review, Diane. So nice of you.

      Thanks for commenting, and it is very good.

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    1. :) :)

      Yes...hurrah for them.

      Thanks for commenting, Judy.

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  5. I love historical fiction like this. Great review! Going on my list.

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    1. Thanks about my review, Mary.

      You will really enjoy this book.

      Thanks for commenting.

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  6. I do love the sound of this book. Thanks for the great review.

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    1. I am pretty confident that you will LOVE it, Laurel.

      Thanks about my review and for commenting.

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  7. A review that makes me decide definitely needs to be on my reading list. I am increasingly astounded at the roles women played in the war.

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    1. What women did was amazing!!

      You will love the book, Kathryn.

      Thanks for commenting.

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  8. I did not know any of this part of history and the story was so very well told.

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    1. It definitely is a wonderful part of history.

      Thanks for commenting, Mystica.

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  9. I recently read The Kennedy Debutante, about Kathleen Kennedy. She joined the Red Cross in London during the war. This sounds like it covers the same territory.
    I see it is available through Prime Reads on Amazon, so I just downloaded it.

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    1. ENJOY the book, and thanks for the information about Kathleen Kennedy. I didn't know that.

      Thanks for commenting, Kim.

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