The Woolworths Girl's Promise

Elaine Everest

The Woolworths Girl's Promise
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 March 2023
Pages
384
ISBN
9781529078077

The Woolworths Girl’s Promise

Elaine Everest

The Woolworth Girl’s Promise is the heartwarming eighth novel in Elaine Everest’s bestselling Woolworths series that follows the turbulent life of the very first Woolworth girl.

After losing her beloved fiance at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington is faced with a future at home playing the role of dutiful daughter. In an exciting new world of parties and the rising suffragette movement, Elizabeth struggles with her overbearing parents. Deciding she wants more from life, Elizabeth reinvents herself as Betty, and with only her savings and a small case, she sets out on a mission to experience adulthood for herself, escaping the suffocating expectations of her family.

Betty soon learns all too well about the realities of life and love, falling into a whirlwind romance that leaves her feeling more lost and alone than ever. It takes a moment of fateful chance for her life to change forever. Spotting an advertisement for a nearby job at Woolworths in Croydon, Betty starts on a new and thrilling journey that only puts another wedge between her and her family. Feeling still too close to home, Betty seizes the opportunity of being supervisor at a new Woolworths store opening in Erith. With three shop girls under her wing and war on the horizon, the tales of the Woolworths girls begin…

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