Daisy Styles Books in Order

If you want wartime factory friendships: The Bomb Girls → The Bomb Girls’ Secrets → Christmas with the Bomb Girls → The Bomb Girl Brides
If you prefer midwives and home-front drama: The Wartime Midwives → Home Fires and Spitfires → Keep Smiling Through → A Mother's Love
If you want a single-book taster: The Code Girls
If you want festive wartime comfort reads: Christmas with the Bomb Girls → Christmas With The Wartime Midwives

Daisy Styles is the pen name of Di Redmond, a British writer whose career has crossed television, radio, theatre, film, ghostwriting, and historical fiction. She grew up in Lancashire, and the voices, humour, and grit of the women around her never really left her.

That background sits at the heart of her novels.

Styles has said she learned storytelling by listening. Her mother and Irish grandmother were especially important, and her mother's wartime memories of factory life, uniforms, canteens, music, noise, and danger fed directly into the books she would write years later. The Lancashire moors and mill towns of her childhood also stayed with her, giving her fiction a strong sense of place.

Long before she published novels as Daisy Styles, Redmond built a busy writing life elsewhere. She wrote scripts and stories for children's television and other media, with credits that include Postman Pat, Angelina Ballerina, Bob the Builder, and Chuggington. She has also worked as a script editor, dramatist, ghostwriter, and writer for stage and radio, which helps explain the pace and strong ensemble feel of her fiction.

She did not arrive at novels as a beginner.

That long apprenticeship shows in the way her books move. Scenes are clear. Dialogue is brisk. Large casts stay readable. Even when several storylines are running at once, the emotional line stays easy to follow. Readers who pick up The Bomb Girls or The Wartime Midwives are usually there for the period setting, but they tend to stay for the characters and the sense of people muddling through together.

Her best-known books return again and again to the lives of women on the British home front. The Bomb Girls and The Bomb Girls’ Secrets follow women working in a Lancashire munitions factory, where danger, friendship, secrecy, and romance all sit side by side. The Code Girls shifts to a requisitioned country house in Norfolk. The Wartime Midwives, Home Fires and Spitfires, and A Mother's Love move to Mary Vale, a mother and baby home near the Lake District, where midwives and vulnerable mothers try to carve out safety in the middle of war.

The themes are fairly consistent, which is one reason readers know what kind of emotional world they are stepping into. Styles writes about class differences, shame, pregnancy, lost chances, missing men, overbearing institutions, and the way war reshaped everyday work. But she also makes room for gossip, dancing, tea, humour, and the relief of finding your people. Her books are interested in endurance, yes, but also in company.

That mix matters. These are not battlefield epics. They are stories about shifts, letters, kitchens, dormitories, hospital rooms, and factory floors. The stakes can be high, but the focus stays close to ordinary lives.

Redmond has remained active across different kinds of writing, and she has also written about the craft itself, especially subjects like ghostwriting and adaptation. She lives in Cambridge, still carrying Lancashire with her. That blend of lived memory, professional experience, and affection for women's stories gives the Daisy Styles books their warmth and staying power.