Books in the Quick Reads series are aimed at people who don’t read books very often, and it’s probably safe to say that anyone on Goodreads doesn’t really fall into the target market. Having said that, these novellas are nice fillers when life is throwing a lot at you and you don’t have that time to commit to a longer book. They can also be a useful tool to decide whether you might like to read a full-length novel by an author you haven’t previously read.

Bearing the above in mind, I gave this 2 stars. It’s a sweet enough little tale of life in Liverpool during the Second World War, but perhaps a little too saccharine. What little drama there is in the main character, Amy’s life is really quite, well, undramatic. The story seems to lack any real plot, but just meanders through several years in a little over 100 pages. If this were the first book a non-reader tried, I can’t see them being in a hurry to rush back for more, and I certainly won’t be reading any more of this author’s work. ( )

A nice read from the quick reads series. I found this to be one of the better quick reads and really liked reading Amy's diary. I feel that in the few short pages, I could really get to know the characters even those with very little in the actual book. ( )

I wasn't hugely impressed by this book. Even though it was a quick read, I have read other quick reads which have put more detail in. I felt like we were jumping about a lot, and you would think something would be important, and then it would just never come to anything.
I think the story of the book was good, there just wasn't enough of it to make it interesting.
I think I would have enjoyed it a lot better if it was a properly fleshed out novel, and not a novel storyline squished into a short story. Perhaps it was a little ambitious to cover the entire war in so few pages. ( )