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A Hope for the Winter

By Lesley Eames
Series: The Newspaper Girls
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A Hope for the Winter is the second instalment in The Wartime Newspaper Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn. Will her spirits be lifted this Christmas? Despite the hardships of wartime, Iolanthe Inverdale is determined to make the best of things.... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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The second instalment in The Wartime Newspaper Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn.

The second instalment in The Wartime Newspaper Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn.

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A Hope for the Winter is the second instalment in The Wartime Newspaper Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn.

Will her spirits be lifted this Christmas?

Despite the hardships of wartime, Iolanthe Inverdale is determined to make the best of things. With her new job at The Allanby Cross Gazette, working alongside Jenny and Eleanor, Iolanthe feels like she's found a new sense of purpose.

But as winter sets in and the strain of war begins to show, it's clear that not everyone in Allanby Cross is coping. And when Iolanthe befriends Archie Atkinson, a young evacuee who is struggling so far from home, she knows she has to help.

Through their work at the Gazette, Iolanthe and her friends set out to bring some much-needed cheer to their community. Yet with the paper under pressure and the future uncertain, Iolanthe must find the courage to do more than simply put on a brave face. Because sometimes, offering hope to others means taking a risk yourself...

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  • A Hope for the Winter
    A Hope for the Winter
    A Hope for the Winter is the second instalment in The Wartime Newspaper Girls series, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Katie Flynn. Will her spirits be lifted this Christmas? Despite the hardships of wartime, Iolanthe Inverdale is determined to make the best of things. With her new job at The Allanby Cross Gazette, working alongside Jenny and Eleanor,...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804998939

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 400

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Romance Lesley Eames Penguin Books Romance Series: The Newspaper Girls

About the Author

Lesley is an author of historical sagas with settings ranging from the early 1900s through the Roaring 20s to World War II. Her first series was the Wartime Bookshop. Her new series is The Wartime Newspaper Girls. Lesley is thrilled to have enjoyed success in competitions as varied as crime writing to writing for children. She is particularly honoured to have won the Festival of Romance's New Talent Award, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Trophy and to have been shortlisted in the UK Romantic Novel Awards (RONAs) three times. Lesley is also a creative-writing tutor and mentor.

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