Joanna Toye

After a career in radio and TV scriptwriting, Jo's first six saga novels feature a family-owned department store in Britain in the Second World War. With husbands, boyfriends and brothers away, three shop girl friends and their families pull together to battle the bombs as well as their own poignant personal dramas. Jo drew on her family's war experiences as well as memories of how shopping used to be. Staying with retail, The Little Penguin Bookshop is the first novel in a brand new series. Twitter @joannatoye https://www.facebook.com/joannatoyewriter/ https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/rna_author/joanna-toye/