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020			_a9781849838849
082			_bJ71
083			_aJ71
099			_a2223
100			_aJones, Catherine _94776
245	1	0	_aWonder girls.
264			_aLondon : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2012.
300			_axvi, 400 p
520			_aThis is an enchanting and uplifting tale of love, friendship and the wondrousness of women, for wonder girls of all ages. 'Don't follow the crowd, ' she'd be telling schoolgirls at the swimming baths. 'Follow your own star and when you have achieved your goal you will have that with you for the rest of your life ... ' In 1928, a plucky young Welsh girl named Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda and the inspiration of her heroine Amelia Earhart. In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a young skiwy at a grand maternity hospital in London smuggles out an orphaned baby on one of the coldest nights of the year. Now, in a small town in Wales, an old lady named Ceci pieces together these stories and is about to discover the surprising ways in which they link to her own. It begins with two girls in the twenties who left their small Welsh village for the Big Smoke, feeling that the world was changing and everything was possible .
651			_aEngland _xSocial conditions _y20th century _vFiction. _94777
650			_aSocial conditions. _94778
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