This is book four in this series and I will say that you should probably read the first three before starting this one. You don't have to but I felt like I was missing something having not read the others.
The Seaside Girls Under Fire by Tracy Baines
Series: The Seaside Girls #4
Genres: Historical Fiction, Saga, Womens Fiction

Will the war put a stop to the Seaside Girls?
Cleethorpes - September 1940

It’s all change for the Seaside Girls…Singer Jessie Delaney has finally got her big break in London’s West End and is determined to make the most of her golden opportunity, even with the start of the Blitz.

Lonely, and lacking the guidance of friends and family, Jessie hopes that seasoned performer Adele Bailey will help her find her feet. But, when fame beckons friendships are tested and loyalties are divided.

Ginny Thompson returns home to Sheffield to care for her sick but abusive father. Will she survive the wrath of her father and the blitz and return to her passion of entertaining the troops on the stage?

Meanwhile, back in Cleethorpes Frances Randolph is busy running the Palace Theatre whilst her husband serves his King and Country wondering if her life in the spotlight is over forever.

Will Jessie make the right choices as she navigates her way to the top – and can Ginny and Frances find their way back to the limelight?

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This is the continuing story of three young women who had sung as the Variety Sisters. They are off living their lives taking different directions. Ginny returned home to take care of her father who is abusive and spent any money he could find on drinking.

Frances has married the father of her child and is dealing with her sister-law while running the Palace which her husband’s family owns. I’m going to be honest I connected the most with Frances. She has such a strong character.

While Jessie is off to London’s West End to be a star while dealing with homesickness and the nightly Blitz that was happening. I think I would have gone running home after the first night. There is no way I would have stayed.

Each one of these women’s stories were so well-written. These women are not fighting on the battlefield of WW II but their battles are no less than those that are fighting. World War II took its toll on everyone from those in the middle of the battlefields to those struggling to survive on the home front.

The entire book was simply wonderful and I am certainly going to go back and read the other three so that I can get the full picture of the lives of these amazing women.