Recently received a boon tour request for Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls by Mary Ellis. However, it's book two of The Clarks Factory Girls series. Needless to say, I just had to read book one first!
The Clarks Factory Girls at War is about three friends and the men they interact with. They all work at Clarks Factory, a shoemaking factory. Those in the area seem to either be a Quaker or of Holy Trinity and intermixing was not the preference of the older generation. even being friends with the other religion was frowned upon, but the young girls refuse to conform.
Louisa, Jeannie, and Kate come from different family backgrounds and find themselves in the same work area where they can support one another. Louisa is hoping for her parents to respect Mattie enough to allow her to marry him. He even protects her when a few drunkards attack Louisa one night when she's walking home from work.
Kate's struggling to survive living with her very abusive father and convince him to send for a doctor for her mother who's very ill. Her father insists her mother's just lazy. It takes Kate's older siblings to come to force their hand to bring in a doctor.
And Jeannie finds herself taking care of her mother who suffers from the sudden death of her father. She also has an older brother, best friend of Mattie, and twin younger brothers, who don't do much except eat everything they see.
There's a lot to grasp in this book, but my favorite part is when Jeannie tells off Douglas when she sees him making out with Doris, when he's supposed to be dating her. Sweet and innocent Jeannie shows her distain for liars and truly stood up for herself. Go Jeannie!
This book deserves 5 out of 5 tiaras! Thanks to Kindle Unlimited and Boldwood Books for this different perspective during wartime. I appreciate this small town and how the level of employment dictates the respect one gets in the community as well.
Now, on to reading Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls!
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