Brought up by her mother and grandmother in London's Docklands, Poppy harbours a secret ambition to become a musician like her father. Waitressing in the drinking clubs during the terrible Great War is where she first hears ragtime and it is there she falls in love with the exotic American, Scott Warrender. After tragically losing him she succeeds in forming the first all-female band and flighty, charming Roddy Ffitch does his best to make her forget...From smoky clubs to ocean liners, through the war, the reckless dancing years and the Wall Street Crash, Poppy is determined to succeed. Only her last ambition remains unfulfilled - to share it with the man she loves.

Cinnamon Alley

Literature & Fiction

Burns, Patricia

Contemporary

Random House of Canada, Limited

Keep Safe for Me

RANDOM HOUSE UK

<p>As Britain's railroads burgeon, a young Victorian woman named Kezzy is motivated by her love and her longing for a better life to struggle for her very survival</p>

Kezzy

British & Irish

St Martins Pr

Stacey's Flyer

Romance

Historical

KEZZY

Pan.

As Britain's railroads burgeon, a young Victorian woman named Kezzy is motivated by her love and her longing for a better life to struggle for her very survival

1941: London is in the grip of the Blitz.  Rita Johnson spends every night sheltering in the Underground, coming home each morning to the Isle of Dogs not knowing whether she still has a place to call her own.  Rita longs to join the forces to escape the restrictions surrounding her and her loveless marriage to Ron.  Then her younger sister comes home with Jack Wilkinson, a bomber navigator.  Rita is immediately attracted to him, but he is her sister's man and she is a married woman...  "The authentic flavour of the East End...compelling." Harry Bowling

Keep Safe For Me (Magna Large Print General Series)

Genre Fiction

Magna Large Print Books

1909, and life is hard for young Poppy Powers in the Isle of Dogs. Her father has disappeared, but he's left behind his saxophone and Poppy's dream to become a musician. Working as a waitress in a drinking club in the terrible Great War is where Poppy first hears ragtime, and there too she falls in love - tragically and irrevocably - with the American Scott Warrender. Alone with her talent, Poppy launches the first all-female band. Bright Young Things flock, and so does Roddy Ffitch; charming, rich and madly in love with Poppy, but can he succeed in making Poppy forget Scott?

We'll Meet Again

MIRA

Bye Bye Love

Mira/ Mills & Boon

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