It's WWII and Rosalie wants nothing more than to use her skills as a pilot to help in the war effort. Assigned to the ATA, she finds herself ferrying planes around the UK. She finds friendship with two fellow pilots- Caro and Zofia. AND she finds not one but two love interests- Snug and Alan. These two male pilots are different from one another in personality and you, like me,, might figure out which one is the better man before Rosalie does. Her real love affair is with flight, though,. and those who like details about planes will relish this one. Those who enjoy Wingate's mystery fiction know that she's got a nice way with words and if you don't know her, this is a good intro to her work. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. It's big hearted historical fiction.

What a heartwarming story!
Rosalie has known she wanted to be a pilot since she was 11. Glamour Girls follows her as she goes from a farmers daughter to a pilot ferrying planes for the RAF during WWII. AND, what a journey it is!
Author Marty Wingate’s research and details provided throughout the story just draws you in. It’s like you are literally there in the story with Rosalie.
Loved all the characters. Which is unusual as usually I can’t say that. But, each and every character had personalities that you just had to love. Well, Grace took a quick minute to like but, in the end, she was likeable😊
Highly recommend for any historical fiction reader. Totally a heartwarming, easy read.
I’m excited to read more by Marty Wingate in the future.
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book for my honest opinion. All opinions expressed are my own.

You know those books that stand out? Not because they have anything particularly new or shocking, but because their story grabbed you so completely that you devoured it in 24-48 hours? Yeah, this was that book for me.

Rosalie has dreamed of becoming a pilot since she was eleven years old. She finally gets the chance to learn at 16, a couple years before the start of WW2. She eventually gets accepted into the ATA and we follow her story through the years of the Second World War.

In all honesty, if you are looking for a book with a heavy presence of WW2 information, this is not the book for you. It focuses more on Rosalie’s thoughts and feelings and friendships during WW2 and mostly centers on her romantic interests.
There is a lot of honorable mentions regarding the war, but it is more a surface skimmer of details. I think that was why I enjoyed this book at this particular time. It was a lot more lighthearted of a read and it allowed me to enjoy the story without anything too substantial. I loved the secondary characters and I found Rosalie’s personality refreshing although her innocence was a little annoying at times.
My only complaint is that the characters were just a little too aloof for me in regards to the subject. Based on the blurb, I wanted a happy medium of meatiness and naivety, which I didn’t quite find. All the characters seem to be directly connected to the war in some way, but they act like it’s nothing to be bothered about. Just a vibe I got while reading. For this type of topic, it wasn’t taken quite serious enough for me. I did really enjoy this though. It was a heartfelt, easy read, and would be great for readers who want a more fluffy venture into the beginning of 1940s Britain.

Thank you NetGalley and Alcove Press for a copy of this novel. All thoughts are my own.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an eARC of this book.
Though fiction, based on real people and real events. Loved the characters. Well written and the plot flowed so as never to become boring. Thoroughly enjoyable.

I love historical fiction, especially the ww2 era. Where get to know what men and women did under the bleak era i our history. But Even the. Book was about that, it fell through for me. Some parts Of the book felt to rushed and to thin. I wanted to know more about the Main characters in this book.. But thank you to netgalley for letting me read This e arc in exchange for an honest opinion

A light, well-researched novel about one of the female pilots in Britain's ATA force during WWII with a lot to recommend it. The period details were, along with being well-researched, well-distributed throughout the book, as were the processes and exploits of the pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary. The story follows the POV and experiences of one character, and I have read enough split-POV books recently that I actively enjoyed this; I actually ended up wishing that the book had more character-anchored introspection, ha. Our protagonist is extremely oblivious to interpersonal dramas around her and correspondingly quite clueless about her own emotions, and while I felt this was done well I couldn't help but wish for, perhaps, a slightly more emotionally literate heroine. She does improve towards the end, though! All the characters felt well-drawn; I am perennially uncomfortable with love triangles, but I thought this one was handled well, with a surprising amount of sympathy for all parties involved.

In attempting to describe this book, the adjectives coming to mind are things like quick, light, easy. I don't think this book engaged overly much with themes and character development; it did not feel so much About anything as it did a narrative account of one person's wartime experiences. This is not a bad thing in itself but I suppose it ends up colouring my reading and descriptive choices. There are insinuations about home, family, friendship, and found-family; there are recurring mentions of the novel working-women situation; there are multiple romantic subplots; there is one appearance of an interesting love-vs-duty dichotomy which was not raised again, to my disappointment. Rosalie starts the novel wanting to fly planes and basically never wavers in this; there is one chapter where she convalesces on her family farm after a crash which I think is supposed to represent her low point, but even here she seems fairly happily pro-plane, so later declarations that she had to be saved and veritably pushed back into the cockpit don't make much sense. She starts dating and breaks up with a guy with almost equal equanimity; this was the one source of possible Fight that I could see and it didn't pan out that way. She has an arch nemesis in the flying squad with whom she ends up peacefully reconciling. The biggest fight of the novel happened off screen back at the family home and is resolved basically when she shows up. I think what I'm saying is that, in this war novel, there wasn't enough conflict? But then, there's nothing wrong with a cruising, plot-focused journey, with most of the conflict coming from the exterior element that is the war. Ultimately this was a quick, easy read in a genre I like, and I enjoyed the experience. Thank you to NetGalley and Alcove Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Rosalie Wright grew up at Lime Farm in Cambridgeshire a county in the East of England with her older brothers Will and Leslie. Rosalie’s ten when the flying circus visits town, her dad let her go for a joy ride, she loved it and she was determined to learn to fly. Her mum thought her daughters dream was a lot of nonsense and Rosalie didn't change her mind and earned her own money to pay for her flying lessons.

Just as Rosalie’s about to turn 18, WW II begins and her dad suddenly passes away. Will and Leslie are exempt from fighting in the war, the country needs farmers to grow food and why can’t Rosalie be content helping on the farm like her brothers? Her mother isn’t happy about her plans to join the new Women’s Air Transport Auxiliary, Gladys is old fashioned and rather stubborn.
They need women pilots to ferry planes around England’s and Scotland’s many RAF bases. Rosalie applies; she passes her training and is assigned to Hamble. Billeted with Mrs. May, Rosalie becomes best friends with her fellow housemates and ATA pilots Caroline Andrews and Zofia Pasek. I loved reading about the time the Rosalie, Caroline, Zofia and Mrs. May spend together in her little house.

Rosalie and her fellow members of Women’s Air Transport Auxiliary face terrible discrimination from male pilots and ground crew. Rosalie meets two male pilots grumpy Snug Durrant and Alan Chersey he’s handsome and charming. Snug and Alan are very different and it becomes very obvious while reading the story who’s the nicer person. The war years continue the danger and stress increase. The women in the ATA fly all types of damaged and broken planes around the country; they never know what will happen during a flight and where they will end up staying the night. For the men and women the pressure and danger becomes extreme, all the pilots are so tired, nerves are frazzled and it takes its toll.
I really enjoyed reading Glamour Girls; it’s a story about WW II, planes, flying, friendship, camaraderie, loss and unexpected love. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review; it’s brilliant and five stars from me.

Some books pull you in and let you live and exist for a couple days entwined in the lives of the characters and I can honestly say, I was flying right next to Rosalie Wright. WOW, I loved this book!!!
This is my first book by Marty Wingate but I will definitely be searching for more. I listened to this book via Kindle VoiceView and I can’t tell you how many times I backed it up, just so I could listen one more time or I stopped listening and would read slowly just so I did not miss anything.
The writing was stellar, the descriptions were so detailed I could envision the planes, the airstrips, Lime Farm, and could even hear the laughter in the pubs. I was brought to tears several times and was outright laughing when she would ask “what’s your Christian name”? The banter between Rosalie and Snug was priceless. I have read over 150 books this year, and this one is easily in the top 5. Great Book!!! So fun to read this while learning more about the pilots of the ATA in WWII and knowing it was based upon a true character.
I was given the opportunity to read an ARC from Alcove Press and NetGalley for my honest unbiased review. I cannot recommend highly enough, one of the best books I’ve read this year – I give this one the highest 5 stars I can give.

Danielle Martin gives us a story of the power of women's friendships to reshape lives.

Set in the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Glimmer As You Can traces the lives of three women--a flight attendant in a time when that meant "beauty queen," an aspiring professional writer, and a talented, creative, and generous seamstress whose custom sewing shop serves as a gathering place for women to relax and be themselves in a world that wasn't ready for that kind of "girl power."

Despite the tragedies that strike in the later part of the book, this is a feel-good story about three women, all of them battling toxic relationships, who find each other and support each other as they turn around bad situations and find hope for a better future.

My thanks to Alcove and to NetGallery for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review

Up in the Sky

This is a story of the A.T.A. (Air Transport Auxiliary) girls. These brave women transported the airplanes between bases to the soldiers to fly during WWII. They flew in all types of conditions and in all types of planes. Many of them perished in the air but the other's kept flying. This is an important point in history, especially when during that time period in Britain women were not allowed those type of jobs. The war changed everything. As horrible as it was it did bring opportunities for women to broaden their horizons in a variety of different occupations. Dangerous and Daring these women served their country.

Rosalie wanted to fly since she was ten years old and went up in a plane at a circus with her father. She leaves the farm and becomes an ATA pilot. Living in quarters at Mrs. May's they become close friends. I loved the characters, Rosalie, Caro, Zofia, Pamela, Snug, and Allen. Rosalie's family on the farm, Caro's dad Dr. Andrews and of course Mrs. May.

You will follow with their flying adventures, their families, and their romances. The challenges, the heartaches and the love they all had for each other. It is a heartwarming story you will enjoy reading and remember for a long time. It is even more so knowing that many of the events and places are actual events that happened during WWII. The food, the clothing, the rationing and the sights and sounds of the War times.

The book was very well written and a joy to read. I would recommend it.

Marty Wingate can tell a good story, and she does so here with the story of a young female pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2 in England. In a time when women were still expected to do "women's work", Rosalie pursues her passion for flying airplanes while learning about life beyond the confines of her family farm. Great historical details make this an engaging story.

"Glamour Girls" by Marty Wingate is a WWII era historical novel that centers on the life of Rosalie Wright and her earlier adventures before the war and through World War Il as a member of the Air Transport Authority Auxiliary.

She exemplifies England and how each person contributed to the war effort in whatever way that they could. Rosie joined a special breed of women fliers that were unique in that era and dearly needed to fill a role of flying planes across England while allowing their male counterparts to do airplane battle duty.

"Life's adventures are only possible because of life's challenges." Mike Dooley

Marty Wingate's special gift as an author appears when she reveals to us the secrets of some of her characters. Each of these who persevered, some against all odds, had someone in their lives who supported, cared, and believed in them always.

This journey places the readers in a setting and time unfamiliar to us, perhaps even a more simpler time than today. We explore their values, dedication to duty, friendships, loves, and sorrows, and realize that there is always a universal essence to life that does not change. We all live and celebrate life's challenges.

Thank you to the publishers and Net Galley for an e-ARC to review honestly.

Loved this book. The characters were likable, the background of WWII, in the UK mostly England was great, and the history lesson about the female aviators during the war was new to me. I recommend this book without reservation.

Glamour Girls follows the life of Rosalie - a farmers daughter who didnt want to join the family farm business and just wanted to fly aeroplanes. It was a heartwarming story of life as a pilot ferrying planes for the RAF during the second world war. It had everything a romantic war novel needed - romance, tradgedy, shock accidents and more romance. I really enjoyed it as an easy read.

A lovely story of family, love and friendship set against the backdrop of WWII. Although the action started to unfold a bit slowly, it started to pick up about 1/4 of the way into the book and I was engrossed through to the heart-warming ending, staying up late to finish.

I loved the way the author described how Rosalie, an ATA pilot, felt as she flew through the skies of Britain. What an amazing group of brave women (and men) these pilots were, flying planes that often needed repairs and without communication or protection. Filled with historical detail, it was so interesting to see how the characters developed and grew throughout the book and to follow their exploits during this most dangerous time.

I would definitely recommend this book to lovers of historical fiction, especially those set during this timeframe. Thanks to Netgalley and Alcove Press for providing a copy of this ARC!

With thanks for an arc in return for an honest review.
This being a Debut novel I was utterly astounded it's an absolute winner. The attention to detail was really quite amazing based on true facts about the atagirls.
Rosalie and her colleagues what an amazing job they done and totally fearless flying from place to place with nothing but amazing knowledge in there heads, I just totally loved this book and can't praise it enough and look forward to reading more from the OUTSTANDING Author it's been a total joy to read.

A very well researched novel about Rosalie and other women who were pilots for the ATA during WWII. Loved the characters and loved reading about these women who were ahead of their time and contributed to Britain's war effort. Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advance copy.

I received a free Advanced copy from Net Galley in exchange for a honest review.

This is a new historical fiction novel by Marty Wingate, better known for her Potting Shed mysteries and First Edition Library Mystery series.

Rosalie Wright is a young woman who ferries planes from air base to air base during the Second World War. She grew up on a farm and from the age of 11, she has been fascinated by flying. After her first plane ride, she decided that she wants to become a pilot. We meet women from all walks of life who become pilots, ferrying planes from air bases to airbases in the United Kingdom, mainly in England with some forays into Scotland and Wales.

Reading this novel reminded me of an Midsomer Murders episode that I had seen about a family whose matriarch was one of these women pilots who flew planes from base to base.

A World War II story about brave women pilots in Great Britain. I loved this, and the historical detail rings true. The characters are inspirational -- strong and brave, and definitely before their time. I look forward to recommending this book to romance readers who enjoy realistic historical fiction.

"Glamour Girls" by Marty Wingate is a great book set during WWII with female pilots. I have always been interested in history, and so finding a good historical novel, even if fiction, is always something that is a good time for me. It was interesting to see the world from that time period, and what people were going through.

While slow at times, it draws you in fairly quickly and easily and keeps you gripped until the final page, and I love when a book can do that.

The history is well researched, and having additional information makes it good to look up more in the future. Overall a good experience with a book, and I hope to see more from the author

**Received this ARC in exchange for an honest review, thanks to Netgalley and publisher for the opportunity**