Secrets in Store

Secrets in Store
Joanna Toye

The new book in the gripping wartime drama series set in a department store.The second in Joanna Toye’s new wartime drama series set around a Midlands department store.

WARTIME FOR THE SHOP GIRLS

Joanna Toye

Copyright (#u21c8cd86-824c-5fca-a4a2-cd52d07923b1)

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2019

Copyright © Joanna Toye 2019

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Joanna Toye asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780008298692

Ebook Edition © 2019 ISBN: 9780008298708

Version: 2019-08-30

Dedication (#u21c8cd86-824c-5fca-a4a2-cd52d07923b1)

For my parents, John and Mary –this was their war

Contents

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Title Page (#u32b2ecc2-bad7-5923-be4d-fb6a073e6093)

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23