Here’s the blurb
Don’t get angry.
Get rich.
1922. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her – to serve the upper classes or find a husband. During the war, she found freedom in joining the workforce at home, but now women are being put back in their place.
Until Eleanor crosses paths with a member of the notorious female-led gang the Forty Elephants: bold women who wear diamonds and fur, drink champagne and gin, who take what they want without asking. Now, she sees a new future for herself: she can serve, marry – or steal.
After all, men will only let you down. Diamonds are forever.
In Poor Girls, Clare Whitfield exposes the criminal underbelly of 1920s London – but this isn’t a morality tale, it’s an adventure for the willingly wicked.
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My Review
This is, indeed, not a morality tale but instead a richly-imagined and thrilling tale of the 1920s, told through the eyes of Eleanor. She’s a feisty young woman who’s enjoyed the freedoms experienced because of the need for women to work in the factories during World War 1 and doesn’t much enjoy having those freedoms taken from her. And certainly not by an upper class desperate to reestablish their superiority over the working class.
Poor Girls is a fast-paced tale of the 1920s and one that readers will willingly devour. I love stories like this where the characters authentically move through the era they lived within. Not to be missed.
Meet the author
Clare Whitfield was born in 1978 in Morden (at the bottom of the Northern line) in Greater London. After university she worked at a publishing company before going on to hold various positions in buying and marketing. She now lives in Hampshire with her family. Her debut novel, People of Abandoned Character, won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award and is also published by Head of Zeus.
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