Worktown Girls at War Books in Order

Janie’s family hopes for a fresh start on a new Bolton estate, but war takes her husband away. When he returns traumatized and deserts, she hides him at home, risking the security she is determined to preserve for their children.

Seventeen-year-old Renee longs to escape her controlling father, and wartime demand for women workers offers a possible route. A sympathetic farmhand helps her pursue a position, but her father’s constant surveillance threatens the freedom she barely dares imagine.

In wartime Bolton, Livvy turns to sex work to support her grandfather and younger sister. Keeping that decision hidden becomes harder as her sister seeks independence and an American soldier’s growing interest threatens the family she hoped to protect.