Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones, Absolutely Fabulous, Finding Your Feet, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Good Grief. She is currently filming in the Netflix series The Diplomat. Celia Imrie is also the author of her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, and the top ten Sunday Times bestselling novels in the Nice Trilogy – Not Quite Nice, Nice Work (If You Can Get It) and A Nice Cup of Tea - Sail Away and Orphans of the Storm. www.celiaimrie.info @CeliaImrie
Utterly charming and engrossing -- Joanna Lumley Hugely enjoyable and meticulously researched… A must for anyone who likes wartime novels with a difference -- Rosie Goodwin From the first to the last page, I was captivated by this brilliant novel, and simply didn't want it to end -- Jenny Ashcroft A beautiful book about friendship, romance and courage set against a background of war and peril. I loved it -- Sue Cleaver Thoroughly enjoyable! A meticulously researched and deeply evocative snapshot of the experiences of a group of feisty and determined women, who became GI Brides in World War 2 -- Fiona Valpy