Book description
Three women set sail for adventure in a man's world - the Royal NavyWhen Cathy’s twin brother is called to serve in the Royal Navy, Cathy feels lost without him. She leaps at the chance to join the Wrens, which by 1942, has grown into a strong force of over…
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This was a rare novel that depicts life in the WRENs in WWII in fictional form but without melodrama or cliches. The author used three women protagonists, each very different and doing different jobs. The Swordfish pilot in the title is important to one of the three female protagonists, but not dominant. In fact the title is moderately misleading. (Probably someone along the way insisted the author's original title wasn't insufficiently "sexy"!) The point is that this book is predominantly about the women and how they cope with challenges, loss, success and grief. It is not a romance, although the…
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