‘This is an irresistible tale of friendship, love and heartache during WW2 that had me enthralled. Joan, Bea and Edie are ordinary young women with extraordinary courage, who put their lives at risk each day on the anti-aircraft guns. Wartime London has never seemed so real. Clare Harvey’s research is intimate and impressive – I loved all the details of daily life. She captures the dislocation, both mental and physical, that wartime imposes, and I was gripped from the first dramatic page. A vivid and beautifully crafted read that will captivate hearts’ – Sunday Times bestselling author Kate Furnivall
“I’m sure that Clare Harvey’s fast-moving debut novel, The Gunner Girl, will delight all those who love a good wartime story” – Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court
“Heart-warming, enjoyable and full of surprises. I loved The Gunner Girl.” – Elizabeth Chadwick, bestselling author of The Summer Queen.
“Clare Harvey is an exceptional new talent. The Gunner Girl offers a stunningly realistic vision of the WW2 era, through the intertwined lives and loves of three very different women. The story is brought to life by razor sharp dialogue, an eye for period details and a taut plot which never becomes sentimental.” – bestselling author Kate Rhodes.
“It truly is a wonderful story.” – five star review from Tiffany Johnstone on Goodreads
“A brilliant read.” – five star review from Petra on Amazon
THE GUNNER GIRL
Winner of the Exeter Novel Prize and the Joan Hessayon Award for debut fiction
Shared hopes, passionate love, terrible danger
Meet Bea, who has grown up as part of a boisterous working-class family, but is keeping a secret that sends her away from those she holds most precious. How can she regain the life she craves?
Meet Edie, who inhabits a world of wealth and privilege but wants to do her bit for King and country, just like Winston Churchill’s daughter, Mary. Desperate to escape her gilded childhood cage, will she discover that freedom holds danger?
And meet Joan, who can’t remember anything of her past or family, and whose home has been bombed out. Desperate, she needs a refuge. But will her past come back to haunt her?
Each one is about to become a Gunner Girl, and their lives will be changed forever.