Keep Smiling Through
Author: Daisy Styles
Format: Paperback, 131mm x 199mm, 281g, 400 pages
Published: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021
A heartwarming and nostalgic saga about Mary Vale, a mother and baby nestled on the edge of the Lake District, which is about to face its biggest challenge yet . . . It's 1942 and nestled on the edge of the Lake District is Mary Vale, a sanctuary for expectant mothers. Its doors open to two women from London with vastly different experiences. Rosie Lashley, a war widow,arrives with her two children and is relieved to have somewhere safe to give birth. Whilst beautiful socialite, Sybil Harwood, would rather be anywhere else and is desperate to have the baby and return to her glittering life in the capital. But Mary Vale must soon pull together after the army threatens to requisition the Home. Can this Home survive the War? And can these women find sanctuary in one another?
Daisy Styles grew up in Lancashire surrounded by a family and community of strong women whose tales she loved to listen to. It was from these women, particularly her vibrant mother and Irish grandmother, that Daisy learned the art of storytelling. There was also the landscape of her childhood - wide, sweeping, empty moors and hills that ran as far as the eye could see - which was a perfect backdrop for a saga, a space big enough and wild enough to stage a drama, one about women's lives during the Second World War.
Weight: 281 g
Author: Daisy Styles
Format: Paperback, 131mm x 199mm, 281g, 400 pages
Published: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021
A heartwarming and nostalgic saga about Mary Vale, a mother and baby nestled on the edge of the Lake District, which is about to face its biggest challenge yet . . . It's 1942 and nestled on the edge of the Lake District is Mary Vale, a sanctuary for expectant mothers. Its doors open to two women from London with vastly different experiences. Rosie Lashley, a war widow,arrives with her two children and is relieved to have somewhere safe to give birth. Whilst beautiful socialite, Sybil Harwood, would rather be anywhere else and is desperate to have the baby and return to her glittering life in the capital. But Mary Vale must soon pull together after the army threatens to requisition the Home. Can this Home survive the War? And can these women find sanctuary in one another?
Daisy Styles grew up in Lancashire surrounded by a family and community of strong women whose tales she loved to listen to. It was from these women, particularly her vibrant mother and Irish grandmother, that Daisy learned the art of storytelling. There was also the landscape of her childhood - wide, sweeping, empty moors and hills that ran as far as the eye could see - which was a perfect backdrop for a saga, a space big enough and wild enough to stage a drama, one about women's lives during the Second World War.