Rating: 4 out of 5

This was a lovely, easy, split-timeline book to read over the long bank holiday weekend.

The story weaves between 2017/1 and 1940/41. The wartime timeline is told through a diary written by Alice, one of the “penicillin girls”—a group I knew nothing about before reading this book. I really enjoyed learning this kind of historical information from a novel.

The modern-day main character, Jo, comes across the diary inside a handbag at a vintage shop and starts to unravel Alice’s story.

Even so, it did leave me with a couple of questions, so I don’t feel everything was totally resolved. The path that Jo was going to take was laid out for her, though, and I hope she found the commitment and courage to follow it.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account