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Women on the Home Front
Annie Groves · 2014
68/100
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This four-novel anthology brings together warmly regarded wartime women's fiction drawn from family memory, and Annie Groves's London Belles in particular has earned a loyal readership. But the anthology format means uneven quality across four different authors, and the genre conventions are well-worn. Fans of British WWII family sagas will likely enjoy it; readers new to the genre would do better to start with one of the individual novels first.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing66
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy72
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit80
👁 Human-eye gut-check65
Penny’s verdict68
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