WELCOME back to life in post-war Kent in the entertaining fortunes and misfortunes of Elaine Everest’s ‘family’ of devoted and dedicated store staff who have become like friends to an army of readers. Everest’s wonderfully nostalgic Woolies series, which has brought new life and love for the famous stores that once graced almost every high street in the country, has taken us through the trials, tribulations and triumphs of a group of hard-working women and their boss Betty Billington during the turbulent war years.
When the long years of conflict finally ended in Everest’s fourth book, A Gift from Woolworths, her plan was to make it the girls’ last chapter but she was so inundated by readers begging to find out what happened next for her Woolies girls that she happily returned to familiar territory in her fifth book, Wedding Bells for Woolworths. And after a much-loved prequel, A Mother Forever, charting the early life of favourite character Ruby Caselton, Everest (pictured below) brings us The Woolworths Saturday Girls, the seventh instalment and an exciting meet-up with a new generation of Woolworths Girls.
But perhaps their lives are not as clear-cut as their
mothers wished them to be. When Bessie finds love in the wrong crowd and falls
pregnant, the image of her future and ambitions become skewed and she relies on
the Saturday girls to help her see her problems through. But how can they find
a home for the baby when it arrives? With wild imaginations, it is up to the Woolworths girls,
new and old, to save the day… and their futures. Can they achieve their dreams
in time for their futures to begin? With its enchanting mix of drama, romance, friendship and family,
and lots of twists and turns to enjoy along the way, this is an enthralling
introduction to a new generation of those irrepressible Woolworths girls.
(Pan, paperback, £7.99)
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