The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir. Jennifer Ryan

      

      

       Copyright

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      Copyright © Jennifer Ryan 2017

      Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover illustration © Neil Gower 2016

      Jennifer Ryan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008163709

      Ebook Edition © January 2016 ISBN: 9780008163723

      Version: 2017-10-30

       Dedication

      To my grandmother, Mrs Eileen Beckley,

      and the women of the Home Front

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Mrs Tilling’s Journal

Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

Letter from Venetia Winthrop to Angela Quail

Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

Mrs Tilling’s Journal

Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

Silvie’s Diary

Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

Mrs Tilling’s Journal

Letter from Flt Lt Henry Brampton-Boyd to Venetia Winthrop

Letter from Venetia Winthrop to Angela Quail

Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

       Letter from Venetia Winthrop to Angela Quail

       Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

       Mrs Tilling’s Journal

       Letter from Venetia Winthrop to Angela Quail

       Mrs Tilling’s Journal

       Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

       Letter from Colonel Mallard to his sister, Mrs Maud Green, in Oxford

       Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

       Mrs Tilling’s Journal

       Letter from Flt Lt Henry Brampton-Boyd to Venetia Winthrop

       Kitty Winthrop’s Diary

       Note from Miss Edwina Paltry to Brigadier Winthrop

       Mrs Tilling’s Journal

       Silvie’s Diary

       Letter from Miss Edwina Paltry to her sister, Clara

       Letter from Venetia Winthrop to Angela Quail

       Mrs Tilling’s Journal