The picture house girls / Rosie Archer.
Material type: TextSeries: Archer, Rosie, Picture house girls ; book 1.Publisher: London : Quercus, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 345 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781529405279
- 1529405270
- 823.92 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | ARCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | i2216165 | |||
Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | ARC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 24/05/2024 | A00912715 |
"In wartime, life's not like the movies" --Front cover.
Connie Baxter has just moved in with her Aunt Gertie after the death of her mother. Gertie works as a cleaner at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport and she helps Connie to get a job there as an usherette. For Connie, it's the perfect place to work because she adores the movies with their glamorous, romantic stars. The only fly in the ointment is the Criterion's creepy manager with his wandering hands. But soon Connie is firm friends with Queenie, who sells ice creams and soon tells her how to warn him off. Charming Tommo Smith is a 'taxi-dancer'. For a fee he steers ladies of a certain age around the dance floor - and sometimes more besides which pays for his smart clothes. Connie's friend Queenie says he's a chancer, but his gorgeous blue eyes tell Connie something different. When suddenly he disappears, Connie accepts that Queenie may be right - he was too good to be true. As the war rages on and Connie struggles with the harsh realities of life and the turbulence of romance, she comes to realize that life isn't always like it is in the pictures.
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