Meet Me at Rainbow Corner by Celia Imrie

I picked this book on spec based on the author, and because I do enjoy historical fiction, and I am so glad I did. Informative, though provoking, very authentic  and the story stayed with me long after I finished it.

 

The story follows Dot and Lilly, who meet when sharing digs and become firm friends. Dot is a nurse, whose work takes her from the UK to working abroad under traumatic conditions. Lilly works in Rainbow Corner in an office as she cannot drive due to an injury. Both of them volunteer as hostesses at Rainbow Corner, an American club in the UK which is a little bit of America for the American soldiers. It’s the only place in London where there is no rationing, and there are doughnuts aplenty, and their job is to keep the GIs entertained. However, it soon becomes apparent that someone is selling secrets to the Nazis, and Dot and Lilly and their friends are trying to find out who. Throw in various good looking young men who catch the girls’ eyes, and some truly terrifying trips into enemy territory, and you have a truly excellent and exciting story.

 

This book has been so well researched, you can’t help but learn a lot whilst you are totally enthralled in this riveting story

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