With the outbreak of the second world war, the women in the Sylvester family volunteer to take on jobs vacated by men who have joined the armed services. Sisters Peggy and Rose both worked in the canteen serving food to the tram drivers and clippies of Sheffield. First Peggy and then Rose become clippies themselves and work on the trams all day.
Peggy begins to date Bob, the driver with whom she is regularly paired on the trams. Rose can't understand why Peggy does not seem too excited about her relationship with Bob. Rose thinks Bob is wonderful and is secretly in love with him herself.
Peggy meets a young soldier who helps her when her tram is involved in a bombing and she suddenly falls in love. Rose is horrified by the way Bob is being treated and refuses to talk to her sister. The atmosphere in the household, with three generations of women, gets very tense and when Peggy finds that she is pregnant things get even worse.
This is the first Margaret Dickinson novel I had read. It was a very easy read, I enjoyed the story and the developing and tense relationships between the different members of the family were quite entertaining.
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