Hi Rachel!
Thank
you for inviting me on to your blog. It is such a pleasure to be back here again.
I hope you and your readers are well and coping in these unusual times.
I am sure the last few months have been
strange for most people because of the corona virus, but to be honest I have
been so engrossed in writing and editing that I can’t say I have seen a vast
change in my daily routine.
I feel that in some ways the lockdown
reflects the aftermath of WW2 when the inhabitants of Reckoner’s Row saw
rationing and queuing as a way of life. In The Mersey Girls we have
moved on two years to 1950, where rationing is still in place and Evie spends
most of her precious lunch hour queueing for something tasty for the evening
meal, only to find there are only scrag-ends left, when she reaches the front
of the queue.
Although, I did not need to go far to
research Evie’s frustration of standing in a lengthy queue, only to find that
when it was her turn to be served, the shop had barely anything left to sell.
Mind you, I do sometimes wonder if the inhabitants of the dockside street found
it strangely comforting to know that ‘everyone was in the same boat’, as I did.
Although I doubt anybody could have foreseen that this would happen again
seventy years later.
BLURB & BUY LINK:
The latest instalment in Sheila Riley's brilliant Reckoner's Row series
Liverpool 1950
When Evie Kilgaren takes over the running of the back office at Skinner and Son's haulage yard, she has no idea she is walking into a hive of blackmail, secrets and lies.
Her fellow co-worker and childhood nemesis, Susie Blackthorn, is outraged at being demoted and is hell-bent on securing the affections of local heartthrob Danny Harris.
Grace Harris, a singer on the prestigious D’Angelo transatlantic ocean liners, is returning home engaged to be married. But Grace is harbouring her own shocking secrets and something valuable her fiancé very desperately wants back.
As we return to the lives and loves of those who live and work in the Mersey Docklands, not everything is as it seems and love and luck are rarely on the same side.
Praise for Sheila Riley's Reckoners Row Series
'A thoroughly enjoyable, powerful novel' Lyn Andrews
'An enchanting, warm and deeply touching story' Cathy Sharp
Her fellow co-worker and childhood nemesis, Susie Blackthorn, is outraged at being demoted and is hell-bent on securing the affections of local heartthrob Danny Harris.
Grace Harris, a singer on the prestigious D’Angelo transatlantic ocean liners, is returning home engaged to be married. But Grace is harbouring her own shocking secrets and something valuable her fiancé very desperately wants back.
As we return to the lives and loves of those who live and work in the Mersey Docklands, not everything is as it seems and love and luck are rarely on the same side.
Praise for Sheila Riley's Reckoners Row Series
'A thoroughly enjoyable, powerful novel' Lyn Andrews
'An enchanting, warm and deeply touching story' Cathy Sharp
Sheila Riley is the author of the popular
Reckoner’s Row series published by Boldwood Books. Set in Liverpool Docklands,
it tells of the stoic inhabitants of a Liverpool backstreet who find love and
laughter in austere times. But nothing is what it appears to be when Grace
Harris comes home from singing on a luxury cruise liner, with the world at her
feet she doesn’t have a care – or so she would have everybody believe. The
first in the Reckoner’s Row series, The Mersey Orphan, was a number one
bestseller in the Amazon historical group in UK and Canada. The second in the
series, The Mersey Girls is out on 18th August 2020. Thank
you so much, for hosting me on your blog, Rachel, it has been an enormous
pleasure.
Best wishes and stay safe
Sheila 😊 x
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