Author:
Annie Murray
Title:
Chocolate Girls
Genre:
Contemporary Fiction, Family Sagas, Historical Romance, Historical
Fiction, Family, Saga, Romance, Fiction, Historical, Contemporary,
I
was given this book.
This
book has 384 pages and 62 chapters
I
would tell people that you should step outside your comfort zone with
books because it is good to add more authors and genres to your
reading portfolio. Even if you do not read books like this.
I
highly recommend this book.
I
normally read books of this genres but l also stepped outside my
comfort zone with authors and genres l am so glad l did because l
have read so many great books and come across some great authors.
Synopsis:
When Edie marries young to escape her unhappy family home she thinks
that life can only get better, at the age of nineteen, she is
widowed, and after losing her child from the marriage she faces the
second world was grieving and lonely, then one night during the
Birmingham Blitz an infant, mysteriously abandoned during the
bombing, is handed in to her care. Her lively friend Ruby, meanwhile,
does not want to be left behind in the wedding stakes and settles for
marriage with Frank, a man much changed by war, finally there is
Janet, intelligent, kind-hearted and susceptible to male charm, who
is hurt desperately by an affair with a marriage man, and who
assumes she will never love again. David, the child who steal's
Edie's heart as she brings him up through a time none of them will
ever forget, is the center of all their lives, he leads Edie through
struggle and heartache to a life and love she would never have
dreamed of... A spellbinding saga of three very different women whose
lives become entwined by war and their work at the Cadbury's
chocolate factory in Bourneville – and their love for a child.
Proudly sponsored by Cadbury. This book is full of upset, joy, fight
and bombing but Edie looks after a little baby who is left in the
middle of a bombing and she loses a husband at a young age. Then she
losses a baby to her husband and sadly she will never have another
chance to carry another baby. Edie raised David for years and when he
was old enough he went looking for his father and finds out he was
dumped in the middle of the street when bombs was going off and Edie
saved him and looked after him ever since and raised him as her own
baby.
Review:
I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once
l started reading it l was sad to read that Edie lost her husband
then her baby at a very young age. This book was really good but sad
when Edie lost her husband at a young age then she miscarriage her
baby. She has to faces the Birmingham Blitz alone without her husband
and baby. She was given a baby that is mysteriously abandoned in the
middle of the street when bombs are going off. Luckily the baby was
found and handed in to safety. The baby was named David and Edie
raised him as if he was her own baby and she loved him very much. I
wondered what made David's birth family leave him in the middle of
the street when there was a war going on. How can any parent leave
their baby in danger I was just glad he was found safe. But he had
the best upbringing his mother would have wished for and he is the
child Edie dreamed of it is a dream come true for Edie. She loves
David and she would never stop him looking for his father this is a
very sad book but it has a very happy ending. I can not put in to
words how great this book is l would tell people to read it for
themselves to know how great it really is. This book is a most read
and l am so glad it is on my book shelf.
About
The Author: Annie Murray was born in 1960 in Berkshire, and studied
English at oxford university. Her first job took her to Birmingham
where she met her husband, John. They have four children. In 1992 she
began writing her first Birmingham novel, Birmingham rose, which made
the times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has
written six subsequent novels including, most recently, the highly
successful chocolate girls.
About
The Book: this book comes with one then one book cover design and l
like the picture on the front and the colours are not too bright or
not too dull.
Star
Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars
