Chocolate Girls - Annie Murray

Review of Chocolate Girls, a novel by Annie Murray. The book I am reviewing 'Chocolate Girls' is a paperback novel by Annie Murray. The book contains 515 pages, was published by MacMillan in 2003, with a cover price of £6.99. The storyline Chocolate Girls follows the lives of three workers at the Cadbury Chocolate factory, Bourneville. Edie, Ruby and Janet are all young women of their time with very different problems, lives and ambitions. The novel is starts in the period preceding the second world war and continues to it's climax in the 1960's. Edie and Ruby are close friends and the two girls are employed on the production line of ...  Read the complete review

I borrowed The Chocolate Girls from the library after reading a review on there about the novel. Although it wasn't the usually genre I read it sounded interesting and therefore well worth getting from the library. The Chocolate Girls is set around the Second World War, and focuses on three girls who lead similar but very different lives through the book. Edie is a newly widowed lady who longs for a child. When she unexpectedly finds herself bringing up a son her life changes forever. Ruby is a care free girl who likes to have some freedom but doesn't want to get left behind. She finds herself marrying for the sake of it and before she knows it she ...  Read the complete review

Finally I get to write a book review on a book that enthralled me from start to finish. The fact that this book is written and centred around an area not to far from my home is an added bonus. The book I will now review is "Chocolate girls, by Annie Murray". It is rare for me to read books just because they are written by a certain author, I prefer to read as much as I can regardless of author, but Annie Murray is one author I know I will get a good book from. So after my friend lending me this through my works book share scheme I was excited to get started, I was not disappointed. The story is centred around three young girls ...  Read the complete review