Wedding Bells for Woolworths

Wedding Bells at Woolworths is the latest installment in Elaine Everest's much-loved series, following A Gift from Woolworths.

July 1947. Britain is still gripped by rationing, even as the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's engagement sweeps the nation. In the Woolworths' canteen, Freda is still dreaming of meeting her own Prince Charming. So far she's been unlucky in love. When she has an accident on her motorbike, knocking a cyclist off his bicycle, it seems bad luck is still following her around. Anthony is not only a fellow Woolworths employee but has been an Olympic hopeful. Will his broken leg heal in time for him to compete? Can he ever forgive Freda?

Sarah's idyllic family life is shattered when her seven-year-old daughter, Georgina, contracts polio and her time is spent at the hospital willing her child to recover. Freda steps in to help Sarah's husband care for the home and their younger child, Buster.

The friends must rally round to face some of the toughest challenges of their lives together. And although they experience loss, hardship and shocks along the way, love is on the horizon for the Woolworths girls...

Author bio:

Elaine Everest is the author of The Woolworths Girls, The Butlins Girls, Christmas at Woolworths, Wartime at Woolworths, and A Gift from Woolworths. She was born and brought up in north-west Kent, where many of her books are set. Elaine has been a freelance writer for twenty years and has written widely for women's magazines and national newspapers, with both short stories and features.

Elaine lives with her husband, Michael, and their Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Henry, in Swanley, Kent and is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, the Crime Writers' Association, the Society of Women Writers and Journalists and the Society of Authors.