Canary Girls: A Novel. Jennifer Chiaverini
Canary-Girls-A-Novel.pdf
ISBN: 9780063080751 | 432 pages | 11 Mb
- Canary Girls: A Novel
- Jennifer Chiaverini
- Page: 432
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780063080751
- Publisher: HarperCollins
Free ebook downloads for ipad mini Canary Girls: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. “Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women—cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives—answered their nation’s call. These “munitionettes” worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear. Among them is nineteen-year-old former housemaid April Tipton. Impressed by her friend Marjorie’s descriptions of higher wages, plentiful meals, and comfortable lodgings, she takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal near London, filling shells in the Danger Building—difficult, dangerous, and absolutely essential work. Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, wife of Daniel Dempsey, Olympic gold medalist and star forward of Tottenham Hotspur. With Daniel away serving in the Footballers’ Battalion, Lucy resolves to do her bit to hasten the end of the war. When her coworkers learn she is a footballer’s wife, they invite her to join the arsenal ladies’ football club, the Thornshire Canaries. The Canaries soon acquire an unexpected fan in the boss’s wife, Helen Purcell, who is deeply troubled by reports that Danger Building workers suffer from serious, unexplained illnesses. One common symptom, the lurid yellow hue of their skin, earns them the nickname “canary girls.” Suspecting a connection between the canary girls’ maladies and the chemicals they handle, Helen joins the arsenal administration as their staunchest, though often unappreciated, advocate. The football pitch is the one place where class distinctions and fears for their men fall away. As the war grinds on and tragedy takes its toll, the Canary Girls persist despite the dangers, proud to serve, determined to outlive the war and rejoice in victory and peace.
CANARY GIRLS
A group of female munitions workers become friends and soccer teammates in Great Britain during World War I.
Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel
Canary Girls: A Novel (Paperback)
"A sprawling, ambitious story. The good, the bad, and the ugly sides of war on the homefront are highlighted in this uplifting story."
Canary Girls
“An eye-opening and detailed novel about remarkable female soldiers. . . Chiaverini weaves the intersecting threads of these brave women's lives together
Canary Girls: A Novel - Books Are Awesome! - IndieCommerce
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during
Canary Girls: A Novel: 9780063080744: Chiaverini, Jennifer
Excellent historical novel about work in the munitions factories and the lives these women lived and endured for the sake of the cause. Powerful portrayal of
Canary Girls: A Novel (Hardcover)
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during
Canary Girls: A Novel
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes”
Canary Girls
Canary GirlsA Novel ; Publisher: HarperCollins ; Fiction / Historical - 20th Century - World War I / Women / Feminist ; Published · Aug 06, 2024 ; Published · Aug 06,
Canary Girls: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini, Paperback
Fantastic Historical Fiction. A fascinating story about female munition workers during WWI who also played football (soccer); they were called the Canary girls.
Pdf downloads:
Download PDF Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 1 by Meng Xi Shi, Me.Mimo