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Helen Carey

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance

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Welcome to my site. I am probably best known for my bestselling LAVENDER ROAD series set in London during the second world war. VICTORY GIRLS, the final book in the series was published in April 2018 by Headline Books and TSAP. It was sad to finish the series but I felt six books was enough!
VICTORY GIRLS is already in the Amazon US bestseller charts along with the other books in the series.

Having lived in various parts of the world, I am now based in West Wales where my husband and I run our small coastal farm as a conservation project. I am a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and a member of the Society of Authors. I also teach from time to time on Creative Writing programmes at various universities, specialising in story structure.

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	Lavender Road (Lavender Road #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Calling (Lavender Road #4) 4.58 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Side of the Street (Lavender Road #5) 4.61 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Sunny Day (Lavender Road #2) 4.53 avg rating — 1,011 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victory Girls (Lavender Road #6) 4.69 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On A Wing and A Prayer (Lavender Road #3) 4.53 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slick Deals 4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Loving 3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This is to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year.

Hopefully there will be a book surprise at some stage in 2026 …. !

With all best wishes to you all, Helen and Marc

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“ask.’ For an awful second Katy imagined herself asking Sister Morris, and cringed. It was quite simply out of the question. The very thought made her feel sick. ‘I don’t think there is,’ she had said helplessly. ‘I don’t know anyone well enough to ask, not about something like that. I’ve only been there a week.’ A week? It seemed like a lifetime. A lifetime of aching feet and continual reprimands. Was it really only a week? She wondered if she would last another. Deep down she wondered if she wanted to. Louise’s eyes suddenly filled with tears. ‘Please, Katy.’ Her classy BBC voice had choked. ‘You must help me. There’s nobody else I can turn to.’ ‘I suppose I could ask Jen,’ Katy said doubtfully. ‘She”
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“For a week she had waited for him to get in touch. Waited for a note, a knock at the door. Waited for him to do something. Anything. And the simple truth was that he hadn’t. He hadn’t lifted a single finger to see her. As far as he was concerned she might have died of vomiting. Or fallen off her window ledge and broken her neck. Or been carried off by a white slave trader to Arabia.”
― Helen Carey, Lavender Road

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“Jen woke late on Sunday morning, feeling as though she had been run over by a train. Every limb ached, but none of them as badly as her head. Her throat and eyelids felt as though someone had used a cheese grater on them, her stomach was painfully cramped and queasy and her mouth tasted of unprocessed sewage.”
― Helen Carey, Lavender Road

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