Wartime Comes to West India Dock Road A BRAND NEW heart-breaking, heart-mending story of resilience and love from Renita D'Silva by Renita D’Silva

 This book really brings the camaradie and the suffering of London’s East End to life and it also emphasizes the prejudice towards unmarried mothers and Indians. 

Charity has much to endure. She runs a boarding house while looking after her ill parents and her three charming younger brothers. Her only comfort is the friendship that she find at her friend Divya’s curry house across the road until an injured soldier arrives. Can she overcome her worry about what others think to let love into her life, however?

This novel also tells Divya’s story through the means of her letters to her friend Jack, a POW, and her love Raghu. I liked Divya’s letters and D’Silva’s vivid and emotional writing but I found the interspersion of the letters with Charity’s chapters a bit strange. 

I haven’t read the first book but this is good as a stand-alone. I liked this but I am not sure if I will read the first book.

I received this free ebook from NetGalley in return for an honest review.