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Victor Pemberton
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Synopsis
Peggy Thornton has always felt her middle-class life, living in Highgate Hill, to be rigid and narrow, so when women are urged to help on the home front after the outbreak of the Second World War, she starts training as a conductor on a London Transport bus. Her parents are appalled, but they're not the only ones who make her life difficult. Many of the bus crew haven't adjusted to women from their own class working let alone the likes of Peggy. And, her relationship with Leo, one of the depot's mechanics, serves to create further tensions. It is only when the real enemy strikes, and a German bomb explodes in the path of a bus, that these differences are cast aside but, for some, it may be to late...
Review
Victor Pemberton's new book Leo's Girl, is set at the time when girls become clippies on the buses when all the men are called away to serve in the war. Many people find that this is not what they feel they want to see.
Unfortunately Peggy's family do not like the idea that she is a clippie and also that she has become very fond of one of the mechanics down at the bus garage. During the Blitz they end up trying to save lives and that is when everyone changes their mind and stand amazed at the strength of the mechanics and bus crews who do lots to help those trapped and use their buses to get people out of the blitzed areas.
Well done Victor Pemberton yet another great story of life in war time London
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