Easy to read and the first in a new series - I’ll definitely be looking out for the next book in the series.

This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

This is the second instalment In this series. I love these characters.....I feel like I know them.... if you love Rosie Archer or Nadine Dorries please check out Pam Howe’s. You will thank me!

Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy in return for an honest review
A very good read and one I can highly recommend to others.
I could not put this down.
Thoroughly enjoyable with an amazing cast of characters that you cannot help but engage with.

The Bluebird Girls is a well written historical book. I enjoyed the plot, characters and the author’s writing. I look forward to reading more books in this series. I recommend this book to fans of historical fiction. My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my digital arc. This is my unbiased review.

Wow, one of my favorite reads this year! I loved the setting of 1939, just on the cusp of WWII. A terrific read about female friendship.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

Great book will be reading other books by this author.
Will also recommend this book to others.
Great read! 5*****

Jo and Rainey bird, escape a violent husband and father one night running to Gosport and renting a rundown place which with hard work they make homely. Jo takes up work in newsagents and with Rainey's encouragement, they join a choir run by an eccentric lady called Mrs. Wilkes and her funny little dog Toto.

Ivy and Bea Rainey's friends sing in the choir and the 3 of them make good harmonies. The choir entertains audiences at charity events and Christmas.
Blackie was with Rainey's father when he died fighting in the war and helps the girls on their way to stardom.

There is a lot more to this book, but I don't want to spoil it for other readers.
Only to say that it was a warm lovely book about 3 girls and their love of music and singing. I'm really looking forward to the next book to see where their lives go.
Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book. xx

I absolutely loved this book. It's a very easy read but also keeps you enthralled throughout the story. .
I would recommend this book to my peers .

I really enjoyed this book - it has a great plot, excellent main characters and is a real page turner. I would highly recommend this book.

This is a sweet story about girls during the war. How did they cope? Well they joined a choir and became best friends. It was a wonderful story about having support and I loved it.

Rainey Bird and her mother Jo couldn’t believe they’d escaped the violence and abuse of Alfie – father and husband. Rainey had known she needed to get her mother away after the last episode; she knew he would eventually kill her if they stayed. The small, rundown rental in Gosport wasn’t far from Portsmouth, but they felt safer.

Rainey met two girls who would become dear friends at her new school. Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron both sang in the choir under the guiding hands of Alice Wilkes, and Rainey, who’d been singing all her life, was happy to join the choir as well. That choir, and the confidence of Alice, would be the beginning of a grand new life for the three girls. Entertaining the locals, along with the folks at the retirement home, was a delight. But it was when a young man approached Alice with a proposition for the three girls, that life really began to change.

Between the nightly bombings, the terror and the uncertainty, the girls rehearsed. But would the war change their dreams? How could they continue with the evidence of war all around them?

The Bluebird Girls is the 1st in The Bluebird Girls series by Rosie Archer, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A heartwarming story of hope, kindness, despair and friendship, with three delightful young women as the main characters. Not the usual war story, more to do with living life and looking to the future. I’m really looking forward to #2 – We'll Meet Again - to be published June 2019. Highly recommended.

With thanks to NetGalley and Quercus for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.

This is a lovely book. I have never read anything by Rosie Archer before and I’m sure I’ll read more of them in the future. Especially the next book in this series.

Rainey Bird and her mother Jo, are trying to establish a new life for themselves after doing a midnight flit from the home they shared with her abusive farther. In making a new start for themselves they are invited to join a local choir that is connected to Rainey’s school. By the choirs strict leader Mrs Wilkes.

There they meet and make new friends and Mrs Wilkes puts Rainey together with two other girls called Ivy Sparrow who she already knows from school and Bea Herron, who is a couple of years older. The girls get on well together and Mrs Wilkes knows that they will make a formidable trio. Everyone enjoys their Wednesday evening singing in the choir as its something to look forward to.

Just as things seem to be going smoothly war breaks out and all the theatres are closed down. Meaning the choirs only chance to preform will either be in a local pantomime or in a charity show.

In the mean time Rainey’s farther Alfie has died in the war by sacrificing himself. Just before he sacrificed himself he left a photograph of his daughter and some letter asking the other man to find his daughter who sings like and angel. This stranger get injured on the beaches of Dunkirk so his mission to find Alfie’s daughter are put on hold. When he man recovers and finds the daughter he may be able to change not only Rainey’s future but Ivy and Bea’s futures too.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. Sometimes it is good to read a nice old fashioned story about 3 friends in 1939. Loved it.

Loved this book! Fabulous characters that I could really invest in. Can't wait for more in the series!