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I am a huge fan of Jennifer Ryan’s first novel, The Chilbury Ladies Choir and when I heard that her second book was about to be published I was really excited. The Spies of Shilling Lane is also set in England during World War II but that is where the similarity ends. The main character in this novel is a matronly woman, Mrs. Braithwaite, who until very recently, enjoyed the respect and fear of the women in her village. She called the shots in the Women’s Volunteer Service of Abscombe Village un
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Utterly implausible yet remarkably charming. This frothy tale is the story of the harridan (as she literally described by another character) Mrs. Braithwaite who has been kicked out of her volunteer group in her village (mostly for being overbearing). She goes to London in 1941 to talk to her daughter Betty and to tell her a long hidden secret. Unknown to Mrs. Braithwaite, Betty has been working for a spy for MI6 and has gone missing. She enlists the help of Betty's timid landlord Mr. Norris, an
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