Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow’s department store this ChristmasFor Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow’s Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff – not to mention a store coping with war damage – will be a real challenge.But the girls rally round and put their worries aside to make this, the hardest wartime Christmas yet, one that their families, and their town, will never forget.Joanna Toye's CHRISTMAS FOR THE SHOP GIRLS is a bestseller that brings the 20th century to life. The family sagas of Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls during World War II make this historical fiction a top pick for readers.For fans of Lesley Eames (Wedding Bells at the Wartime Bookshop), Elaine Everest (The Teashop Girls at War), Fenella J Miller (A Dangerous Husband), Maisie Thomas (Hope for the Railway Girls), and Daisy Styles (Christmas with the Engine Girls).