Polly s Angel

by Katie Flynn

When war is declared in 1939, fourteen-year-old Polly is working in a shop in Liverpool. Her friend Tad joins the Navy, and her pal Sunny is in the Air Force. Polly is determined to join up too when she is old enough. When Polly's father has a stroke, she tries to persuade her mother to take her father back to Dublin where there is no war. Then Polly could leave home. But she hasn't reckoned on the destructive powers of the Luftwaffe. The city is bombed and Polly's parents refuse to leave for safety when their adopted city - and their family - are in mortal danger.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Paperback

First published April 4, 2000

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Katie Flynn was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School, where she was extremely happy and extremely undistinguished. Published at the tender age of eight, in Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, she joined a Writers’ Circle as an adult, publishing short stories, articles, etc; only turning to novels in 1971 because the postal strike cut off her main source of income!
At first she wrote under several different names – Judith Saxton, Judy Turner, Lydia Balmain, Judith Arden – but her Katie Flynn books were a delight to write and proved far more popular than she had dreamed. She has now published nearly ninety novels, twenty-seven of which are Flynns. Her most recent titles are: Lost Days of Summer and Christmas Wishes.

Reviews

[Shirley Revill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book and I have read it a few times since I first bought it.
Had me burning the midnight oil and reaching for the tissues.
Recommended

[dave jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

Love Katie Flynn's book and had just finished Strawberry Fields when I realised this was a follow on hoping now there will be another as would love to keep up with the O'brady family

[LAURA JONES · Rating 5 out of 5]

if its Katie Flynn i have to read it! i really like her books and this one was no exception.
Polly and her family have to move from countryside to central Liverpool which comes as a great shock to them all. money is really short as her father is sick their mother has to go out to work .
Polly soons meets Sunny Anderson but as war looms he goes into the Navy. Polly decides to join the WRNS and hears her old friend from the Dublin slums Tad Donoghue is in the RAF. Tad hopes to be reunited with Polly but she is in love with Sunny isnt she?
a great story plenty of war action and very well written as all the Katie Flynn books are.

[Layla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not read today as dated.....

I remember I was on vacation and found a copy of this in a small cafe in Spain or greece , on a book shelf. where anyone could *take a book*

before then I had never read a Katie Flynn book. after reading this I was hooked her her writing style and have read most of her books.

[Gill James · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an engaging story and we are certainly invited to care for the well-drawn characters. However, towards the end of the story Polly comes across as self-centred and uncaring and that is certainly not the first impression we get of her.

[Kari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, how I loved this book. It had everything, a great story, believable characters, and a lot of Northern charm. I just wish I'd found out if Martin came home....

[Bernadette Firth · Rating 5 out of 5]

greast read

Another enjoyable read two sisters from the same family but different lives. A great story full of passion highly recommend it.

[Lisa Carlile · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great novel by Katie Flynn

[Frances Yellop · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it was a great wartime story

[Mimi Berry Terzo · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite 📖