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  • Keep Smiling Through

  • By: Ellie Dean
  • Narrated by: Julie Maisey
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (39 ratings)

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Keep Smiling Through

By: Ellie Dean
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
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June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work, 17-year-old Rita Smith has plenty of people to turn to in the close-knit community of Cliffhaven. Until Italy sides with Germany and Rita's closest friends and neighbours are interned as enemies of the state. As war rages across Europe, Rita is more determined than ever to do her bit for the war effort. Although she is forced to give up her dream of joining the WAAF, she volunteers as a fire warden.

When her own home is destroyed, Rita vows she will not lose spirit and throws herself into doing her bit for king and country, longing for the day when she is reunited with those she loves best....

©2012 Ellie Dean (P)2012 ISIS Publishing Ltd, Random House Audiobooks
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I was oppressed by the whole Rita/Louisa dynamic, which got more exhausting and irritating, frankly. Tiresome. There was no resolution to their dynamic. Louisa never redeemed her character, so her arc just escalated, only getting more and more trollish. Really?... turn her into the wicked witch in the end? Locking in Rita, as if she were in Hansel and Gretel? Just weird. Stuck out like a sore thumb, as it was unrealistic. Gave me a headache. The first two books were so much better.

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