Dancing at the Victory Cafe

Leah Fleming


Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50 · 6 ratings · 288 pages · Published: 03 Nov 2016

Dancing at the Victory Cafe by Leah Fleming
When Isobel Morton takes over the café in Lichfield’s market square, she has big plans. Soon renamed The Victory Café, with a  menu that delights despite rations, the girls who work at the Vic are swept away by Belle’s lust for life.
 
Among the regular customers  is a trio of soldiers from the nearby American base and waitress Dorrie Goodman soon befriends them, learning about jazz and romance in the process. But the stifling morality of a Midlands town in the 40s cannot accommodate such a friendship; jealously, hatred and the weight of public disapproval combine to precipitate a tragedy.
 
It is not until many years after the war that friendship and reconciliation can begin to heal the wounds of the past …

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