This is a delightful story about 3 delightful women: Ava, Bella and Ruby.

It's a story that never hooked me but when I turned to listen to some low stress content, I enjoyed it lots! The 3 young women are all remarkable in how hard they work in the kitchen of a commandeered estate in England in WW2.

Daisy Styles wrote this in 2016 - or at least, that is the date of the audiobook publication. It is NOT contemporary either in the way it is written or more obviously in the period in which it is set.

I'm getting to the point in my romance novel reading that I need historic fiction to be written in a contemporary style. And this is from someone who was shocked at the contemporary TV series, Bridgerton! (and now loves it). ( )

Plucky British woman support the war effort by working downstairs, as cooks and skivvies, in a manor house used to train woman coders. Men, bombers, spies and other distractions enliven their lives and almost all live happily after. ( )

A heartwarming, feel good novel set in a code breaking establishment during the second world war.
Three girls are thrown together in this secretive world,and this is a story of how they get on,both at work and play.
Highly recommended.
I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Penguin / Michael Joseph via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review. ( )