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Poor Girls
by Clare Whitfield
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
WWI has ended and Eleanor, who spent the war working in a munitions factory, finds herself facing a life she doesn’t want. She’s waitressing in a hotel, with little to look forward to besides a life of menial service jobs or marriage.
Life changes when Eleanor finds herself swept up into the Forty Elephants, a network of female thieves in London.
The pacing is fast, the characters are well written, and I enjoyed Eleanor’s transformation from meek(ish) waitress to bold thief. The descriptions of the girls’ tricks and how they ran their operation were interesting, and the plot was gripping.
I had no idea until the afterword that the Forty Elephants were a real gang and some of the book’s characters were real people. That brought a whole new element to the book.
I flew through Poor Girls, didn’t want to put it down. Oh, and I’ve learned a new use for Fisherman’s Friends…
My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
Life changes when Eleanor finds herself swept up into the Forty Elephants, a network of female thieves in London.
The pacing is fast, the characters are well written, and I enjoyed Eleanor’s transformation from meek(ish) waitress to bold thief. The descriptions of the girls’ tricks and how they ran their operation were interesting, and the plot was gripping.
I had no idea until the afterword that the Forty Elephants were a real gang and some of the book’s characters were real people. That brought a whole new element to the book.
I flew through Poor Girls, didn’t want to put it down. Oh, and I’ve learned a new use for Fisherman’s Friends…
My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.