BLOGTOUR REVIEW – What We Did In The War by Jennie Walters.

Today I am on the tour for What We Did In The War by Jennie Walters, thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 277

Synopsis: Can you ever let go of the past? Two women unhappy with their lives seize a chance to start over during a WWII bombing raid, in this dramatic and suspenseful novel.

London, 1944: As bombs start raining from the sky, two women rush out of a restaurant, leaving their possessions behind. Their chance meeting amid the chaos and destruction will have long-lasting consequences. Both beset by desperate problems, they take advantage of the wartime chaos to escape their humdrum lives and start again. .

Sticking together, the pair live under the radar, using a stolen ration book to feed themselves and relying on a street kid’s help to get by. Cecil eventually finds work, while glamorous, feckless Claude looks after the flat—or doesn’t. Gradually their friendship sours and resentment creeps in. Just as Cecil is wondering whether she should ever have trusted Claude in the first place, she makes a shocking discovery—one that will expose a web of secrets, lead to an act of violence, and set the two on separate and very different paths.

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this story, I was a little worried with it being a story set in WW2, but the primary focus was more on these 2 women and their life rather than the way itself which I really appreciated.

We’re following 2 ladies, Cecil and Claude as they become known, they’re thrown together in a restaurant when it’s attacked by a doodlebug, they have nothing in common other than they both have a past to escape & decide to use the bombing as a way to do so, they’re both presumed dead so why not reinvent themselves?

One is pregnant without the father in the picture and the other wants to escape an unhappy marriage, can they work together to both find happiness?

All seems to be going well, they’ve even found a friend in a young girl called Floss, who helps them become more ‘worldly wise’ but we all know that secrets don’t stay secret for long and the past will eventually come and find them.

A really easy read that delves into some sensitive topics without getting too heavy.

One that I would highly recommend

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