Rosie Archer

Rainey Bird, Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey, music has been a solace during the upheaval of starting a new life with her mother, away from her abusive dad. Bea finds a confidence when she sings that she cannot get from anything else. Ivy sees it as her best chance of making a life away from Gosport and a dead-end job. The three of them sing in a choir run by the strict but kind Mrs Wilkes. When war breaks out, though, dreams must be put on hold. That is, until a mysterious stranger arrives with a proposition that just might change their lives...

1944, Hampshire: Her face still bearing the scars from the explosion at the factory, Rita Brown nonetheless manages to keep calm and carry on with a little help from her friends. But when she discovers someone there has been leaking secrets to the Germans, Rita must work out who she can rely on - and fast.

Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England but at Priddy's munitions factory, Em Earle is about to suffer a threat from much nearer home. Local crook Samuel Golden is up to his old tricks, trying to find ways to exploit people's hardship for his own gain.

When Vee Smith starts work on Gosport's ferries, she soon makes friends with the other girls. But Vee has a secret: her real name is Violetta Schmidt, and she is half-German. If her true nationality is discovered, she and her mother could find themselves interned as enemy aliens...

The war is drawing to a close, but the munitions girls are still hard at work in the factory. An act of kindness towards a homeless teenager, provides Gladys with a new friend and lodger. But Goldie has run away from her dangerous family - can Gladys keep both of them safe while dealing with her own unexpected pregnancy?

For Pixie and Rita, the Munitions Girls, work is dangerous and the hours long but they are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. Then Pixie falls pregnant and her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive…