Published: 4th December 2015
Publisher: Bookouture
Pages: 350
Available in Paperback and on Kindle
Blurb
Brighton 1963. Mary Pickles and I walked along the street with our arms linked, looking in shop windows. We were best friends and together we were invincible.
Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They’ve shared everything together since then – the highs and lows of school, family dramas, hopes and dreams and now, at seventeen, they’re both shop girls, working at Woolworths.
As they go out in the world in pursuit of love and happiness, the simplicity of their childhood dissolves as life becomes more complicated. The heady excitement of first love will consume them both, but the pain of unintentional betrayal will test their friendship in ways neither of them could ever imagine…
A charming, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting novel which brings a bygone era vividly to life.
Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They’ve shared everything together since then – the highs and lows of school, family dramas, hopes and dreams and now, at seventeen, they’re both shop girls, working at Woolworths.
As they go out in the world in pursuit of love and happiness, the simplicity of their childhood dissolves as life becomes more complicated. The heady excitement of first love will consume them both, but the pain of unintentional betrayal will test their friendship in ways neither of them could ever imagine…
A charming, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting novel which brings a bygone era vividly to life.
Review
The Girls of See Saw Lane by Sandy Taylor tells the tale of
Dottie and Mary, who’ve been best friends since age seven when Mary moved onto
See Saw Lane. This is a tale of friendship, betrayal, romance, growing up and tragedy,
it’s a story which seems so ordinary yet it is so well written that it will
totally absorb you and capture your heart.
Both main characters Dottie and Mary are very likeable and
although very different they have the kind of close friendship many of can be
envious of. Mary is a dreamer and artistic and she longs to travel the world
and attend art school in Paris. She infatuated with bad boy Elton and longs for
him to whisk her away from Brighton. Dottie is the more sensible one, she
enjoys her job at “Woolies” and all she really wants in life is to get married
and have her own family, but she’s happy to follow along with Mary and her
dreams.
When their friendship suffers the ultimate betrayal can they
survive? Can one girl get over the betrayal and forgive her friend or can she
move on and make a life on her own? What does the future hold for these two
girls?
I loved the descriptions of life for the girls in 1960s
Brighton, their work in “Woolies” where they encounter the latest make-up, to
the record shop where they listened to their latest rock and roll heroes, to
the chips the bought on the pier. It really made me feel like I was there with
them experiencing everything.
I loved this novel so much, even though it’s probably the
most heart-breaking story I’ve read all year. It left me sad but in a good way
and I’m eager to read the next book “Counting Chimneys” to see what happens
next.
I’d like to thank Bookouture and Netgalley for the review
copy and rate this heart-breaking and beautifully written novel 5/5.
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