Secrets of the Lavender Girls

Critics Review

• Praise for Secrets of the Lavender Girls:

• As warm, welcome and inviting as a cuppa on a cold day

  Melanie McGrath

• Another of Kate’s wonderful stories with a twisty plot, warm-hearted characters, with laughter, secrets and heartbreak – and bursting with fascinating detail. A really great read

  Annie Murray

• Kate Thompson has brought to life a remarkable story and in loving detail too . . . an absolute joy!

  Glenda Young

• A fabulous read that both entertains and educates! A wonderfully written, heart-felt novel . . . The historical research which has gone into this novel jumps off the pages. Perfect for lovers of saga or those wanting to step through a door to the past and become enmeshed in a fascinating part of our social history

  Nancy Revell

• A welcome return to the Yardley Factory . . . A strong story of friendship, love and family set amid WWII

  My Weekly

• Praise for Kate Thompson:

• A riveting and wonderful read

• The way Kate Thompson writes . . . made me feel that I was reading about old friends. I just had to keep the pages turning. I am sure that before long her readers will be clamouring for more

• Marvellous, full of gutsy characters I immediately empathized with

• The remarkable story of the women who ruled the East End through the Blitz. A lively authentic social history, the book centres around five formidable working-class women . . . a hair-raising, but always warmhearted tale

  My Weekly

• Kate Thompson writes books that make you laugh and make you cry, sometimes at the same time. You cannot put them down. I advise you to read them all!

• Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship

  Mail on Sunday