Review of Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls by Joanna Toye

 

I am thrilled to be taking part in the blog tour for Wedding Bells and the Victory Girls today.

This is the final book in the Shop Girls series by Joanna Toye that is set during the second world war.

It is summer 1945 and the war has ended. Lily, Grace and Beryl are looking forward to a peaceful future, but drama is not far away from them.

Lily and Jim have the summer wedding that Lily has always wanted, but will marriage mean for her hard-earned job at Marlows department store?

Gladys is so excited when her husband Bill returns from the war, but he soon finds it hard to readjust to civilian life and to find a job. Whilst Beryl’s bridal shop comes under threat and she must find a way to keep it running.

I loved meeting up with these characters again. Joanna Toye really brings the characters during and just after the second world war to life and it gives a reminder that things did not just go straight back to normal. I was quite sad to finish this series, it feels like leaving some old friends.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s great to read as a series, but can easily be read as a standalone novel too.

I highly recommend this, especially for fans of historical fiction.

Ad/PR: I received a copy of this book as part of the Random Things blog tour.