The Boat Girls

Margaret Mayhew

earliest edition we have, 2007 Corgi, 2007 paperback 432 pages

It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. For Frances, her life of seeming privilege has been a lonely one. Brave and strong, stifled by her traditional upbringing, she falls for a most unsuitable man. Prudence - timid and conventional, her horizons have never strayed beyond her job as a bank clerk in Croydon until the war brings her new experiences. Rosalind - a beau...

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Editions we hold

Boat Girls edition · 2010 · Transworld Publishers Limited · 432 pages · 9781409083856
Boat Girls edition · 2009 · Penguin Random House · 432 pages · 9780552160704
The Boat Girls edition · 2009 · Magna Large Print Books · 366 pages · 9780750531283
The Boat Girls paperback · 2007 · Corgi · 432 pages · 9780552154918
The Boat Girls edition · 2007 · Bantam Press · 432 pages · 9780593057162

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