The Bomb Girls’ Secrets by Daisy styles- Not A Review

Last year I attended the Books By weight sale at Visakhapatnam in Feb, exactly one month before the pandemic lockdown began.

It is in fact, the first-ever I've attended and it was pretty exciting. I picked up 11 books in total and choosing those out of thousands of books over there is quite a task. I quickly glanced at the Blurb(short summary) that is provided at the back of the book and chose my picks.

I love to read and hear stories that are set in the wartime era and when I picked "The Bomb Girls’ Secrets by Daisy styles", I thought this one would be really interesting because from cover page to summary it is evident that this book is all about those times. 

When we hear about the stories of war, they mostly revolve around the men away from home, fighting at the front line but what about the women who kept the nation running in the times of war, their story needed to be told and this book is a good account of it.

 

This book tells the story of women who were sent to munitions factories where they would lodge locally and assemble bombs on an assembly line, dangerous jobs in the war effort.

 

The book focuses on mainly three characters, they were engaging and each had their own tale to tell, together they learned to trust and support each other through the good times and the bad. 

They discover that they can all play musical instruments! Along with a few of the other girls from the factory they start up a swing band, "BOMB GIRLS" and begin to play in competitions. Alongside all this, the darkest side of their secrets started to unfold.

This is a very good inspiring book and at times it gets predictable and it focuses less on how their work helped in the war efforts and more on the turmoil they had to go through, in all, the author Daisy Styles manages to capture the spirit of these girls very well.

Daisy styles writing is very easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable, felt like I was reading a Sudha Murthy book.

Through the internet, I came to know that this is the second in a historical fiction series set in 1940s war-torn Britain and I am really looking forward to reading the other in the series.