Jane: Young Author by Valerie Baxter
This is my second go at collecting career novels. As a teenager I had virtually all the Bodley Head Career Novels but I got rid…
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Sarah Joins the WRAF by Shirley Darbyshire
Although I was educated pretty much at the end of the runway of, and lived under the flightpath for, RAF Lossiemouth it never occurred to…
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Air Hostess Ann by Pamela Hawken
The first time I flew I was already established in my career. I went on a school trip from Wishaw in post-industrial Lanarkshire to Schweinfurt…
Janet Carr: Journalist by Josephine Kamm
Now journalism is something I might have considered if the careers service my school used had been slightly more interested in my future. I still…
Margaret Becomes a Doctor by Joan Llewelyn Owens
Following on from yesterday's foray into the medical world, today I bring you Margaret Becomes a Doctor. And another profession that it would never have…
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The Sue Barton Series by Helen Dore Boylston
When I first floated the idea of taking a stroll through my collection of career novels, one of my friends put in a request for…
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My Lockdown Books: Sixty Nine
You might think I've chosen another book by Elinor Brent-Dyer to include in this lockdown selection but I haven't - although I understand why you…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Eight
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong return for another unladylike murder mystery in Mistletoe and Murder. The school friends are spending Christmas in Cambridge with Daisy’s…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Seven
I reviewed all three books in Teresa Flavin's trilogy, mostly because I loved them and thought that they were well written but partly because I…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty Six
In The Glass Swallow Julia Golding revisits the world she created in Dragonfly. This is more of a companion piece than a sequel, however, and…
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