Keep Smiling Through

Sep 21, 2024 10:30 AM

Author:Daisy Styles,Helen Lloyd

Brought to you by Penguin.

The heartwarming and moving new Wartime Midwives story of three fascinating women fighting to keep the doors of Mary Vale Home open to mothers and their children . . .

Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Nancy Revell and Call the Midwife

Lake District, 1942, the women at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home must pull together during their darkest hour . . .

But this is not easy when three very different women walk through its doors.

Sybil would rather be anywhere else. She hoped to spend the season in London but an unexpected pregnancy soon put paid to those plans.

While poor Rosie arrives with her two children in tow - their lives torn apart after their house was bombed.

And when new midwife Edith joins it's clear she has her own secrets to hide.

Then one day Mary Vale faces the ultimate threat, requisition by the army and the mothers and midwives must find comfort and friendship in one another.

But can they also find the strength to fight for their Home?

Praise for Daisy Styles

'An absolute joy to read' Kate Thompson

'Will tug at the heart strings of readers everywhere!' Fiona Ford

'Truly endearing characters' Annie Murray

Reviews

Praise for Daisy Styles

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Well done Daisy for creating characters that are real women in the best sense. Funny, scheming, loyal and witty, but about all, hardworking and proud. An absolute joy to read

—— Kate Thompson, bestselling author of, Secrets of the Home Front Girls

A cracking story with truly endearing characters

—— Annie Murray, bestselling author of, Now The War Is Over

This is her best yet. I devoured it in one sitting - it's a real page turner that will delight and tug at the heart strings of readers everywhere. Wonderful!

—— Fiona Ford, author of, The Liberty Girls

[Grossman gives] vivid voice to each of the characters as they navigate their pain, both present and past... Grossman's 12 previous novels and five volumes of non-fiction have brought him renown on both sides of the Atlantic. This book will earn him more.

—— Economist

[A] concisely devastating novel... [Grossman] has demonstrated again that the novel - elastic, expansive, amenable to painful fragmentation - can provide a space for the most harrowing and resistant material.

—— Alex Clark , Guardian

Nobody can see the political in the personal like David Grossman. He is an interpreter of hearts and an investigator of social forces. Every book he writes is a revelation.

—— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

A moving exploration of the power of love, secrets and forgiveness. A sweeping narrative rooted in a deep faith in humanity.

—— Hephzibah Anderson , Mail on Sunday

Grossman is surely now the greatest living Israeli writer. And his new novel, More Than I Love My Life, is arguable his best yet... what makes the book so powerful and complex is not just the daughters' refusal to forgive, but the way Grossman lets the story unfold.

—— David Herman , Jewish Chronicle

A meditation on love, on memory, and on the power of storytelling.

—— Ángel Gurría-Quitana , Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

The reader is invested from the start . . . So poetically elegant as to be breathtaking . . . Life Sentences is writing at its finest.

—— Claire Fullerton , New York Journal of Books

O'Callaghan's prose is mesmerising in its beauty . . . Profound, moving, sometimes shocking, [Life Sentences is] from the pen of a writer at the top of his game.

—— Anne Cunningham , Meath Chronicle

One of the most beautiful books of the year.

—— Sam Blake, #1 Irish Times bestselling author of the Cat Connolly trilogy

The novel I most look forward to is Billy O'Callaghan's Life Sentences.

—— Maggie Fergusson , Tablet *Highlights of 2021*

The accomplished writer . . . O'Callaghan has proved an empathic and expert diviner of the extraordinary in ordinary lives.

—— Marjorie Brennan , Irish Examiner

An absolutely stunning book . . . A truly beautiful read.

—— Sinéad Moriarty

A gifted storyteller.

—— Donal O'Donoghue , RTÉ Guide

A terrific family saga.

—— Village Bookshelf

A lyrical prose reminiscent of William Trevor, and a haunting family drama.

—— Times Literary Supplement

One of the most exciting literary talents to emerge in the last decade.

—— Irish Examiner

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