# The Girls They Left Behind

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- Authors: [Lilian Harry](https://www.bookquiver.com/lilian-harry)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2007-02-15

## Description

The second novel in the April Grove series, following the lives of working-class families during the Second World War. It is 1940, and the neighbours in April Grove are close knit, patriotic and proud - but the onset of the Blitz tests their loyalties and courage as never before. Betty Chapman meets a devastatingly attractive man in the Land Army, who upsets all her settled ideas; Olive Harker, just married, must now decide whether to risk motherhood; and Nancy Baxter offers comfort to lonely serviceman while her son runs wild... Their stories are played out against the backdrop of a great seaport at war: the horror of the air raid sirens, the naval dockyards buzzing with activity and the overwhelming desire to survive the city's darkest hour...

## Editions

### The Girls They Left Behind

- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0913-033-8
- Published: 2010-08-19
- Language: en_GB

### The Girls They Left Behind

- Publisher: Orion
- ISBN: 978-07-5280-333-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2007-02-15
- Language: en_GB