Meet me at Rainbow Corner / Celia Imrie ; with historical research by Fidelis Morgan.

Imrie, Celia, 1952-, author
Morgan, Fidelis, 1952-, associated with work

London : Bloomsbury, 2025.

368 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.

London, 1944. The air raid sirens are blaring, the bombers are hovering. England has been at war with Germany for four years, and there's no sign of peace coming. Dot Gallagher, newly arrived from Liverpool to offer her services as a nurse, hurries from her Red Cross hostel to the tube station to join the crowds of people taking shelter. A group of GIs have started dancing around a wind-up gramophone, and it doesn't take long for Dot to join them. As she jives along with one of the American soldiers, he tells her about Rainbow Corner, a social club in Piccadilly for US troops. There is always a demand for dance hostesses there, women who know how to jitterbug and rock'n'roll, to dance with the soldiers. Would Dot like to apply? As Dot discovers, Rainbow Corner is like no other place, an oasis in London where, once inside, the constraints of wartime Britain disappear.

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