I’m sharing my review for The Girls Who Dared to Love by Diney Costeloe #blogtour #newrelease #historicalromance

Here’s the blurb

Three girls seem to have the world at their feet in the summer of 1914. But World War I is coming and things will change forever – especially for women.

Debutante Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to Major Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared and David is recalled to his regiment.

Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke’s printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father’s old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan. What can she do?

Lady Diana Fosse-Bury is incredibly beautiful and reckless. When war is declared she immediately wants to be in the thick of it. Can her budding romance with Lucinda McFarlane’s brother Iain survive the Western front?

With war coming, the destinies of these three girls will soon be entwined forever, but only if they dare to love in the face of the dangers ahead of them.

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My Review

The Girls Who Dared to Love is a story of three young women at the start of World War 1, all with different intentions in life.

We first meet Lucinda and follow her marriage to Sir David. The storyline then intermingles with feisty Mabel before Diana makes an appearance. We follow the many intricacies and minutiae of their lives as the threat of war begins to build. Then it starts, complete with the oft-repeated phrase that it would all be over by Christmas 1914, which adds poignancy to their stories.

While the writing style isn’t one I favour (as the chapters aren’t character-specific), I found the storyline engaging and was certainly rooting for Mabel, who perhaps, as the working-class member of the cast, has the biggest fight of all on her hands.

A charming novel, sure to appeal to fans of the genre, and those with an interest in women’s lives during the First World War.

Meet the author

Diney Costeloe is the author of twenty-four novels, including The Girls Who Dared to Dream, several short stories, and many articles and poems. She has three children and seven grandchildren, so when she isn’t writing, she’s busy with family. 

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