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Lavender Road

Lavender Road

Author(s): Helen Carey

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Early WW2, 1939/40

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BATTERSEA: London at war – set in 1939 and 1940, Lavender Road follows the entwined lives of the women who live in one South London street during World War 2. Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker, a pub, two rows of terraced working class homes, and, at one end, the big house owned by the local brewer. When war breaks out, the lives and fortunes of the families who live in Lavender Road are changed out of all recognition. For Joyce, it means a struggle to keep food on the family table: for Jen it may mean the end of her dream to become an actress: and for Pam, there is the sickening seesaw of emotions as she fights attraction to her handsome lodger and a growing distance from a husband who is judged not fit to enlist.

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Lovely characterisation in this series and great rendering of South London at this period – Bookylicious –

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