Celia Imrie

Dyslexia-Friendly Edition: This edition uses a sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. Anything written by Celia Imrie is guaranteed to put a smile on our faces and her latest book is no exception – Good Housekeeping "A dashing roller coaster. She is extraordinary" – Joanna Lumley "A very witty woman. Hugely entertaining" – Julian Fellowes The...

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....

FROM CELIA IMRIE: STAR OF CELEBRITY TRAITORS ON BBC ONE! ‘Walking in time with the beat, clapping her hands, clicking her fingers. How could anyone resist the urge to dance? Dot swirled her Red Cross cape in time with the rhythm.’ London, 1944. The air raid sirens are blaring, bombers are hovering. The war with Germany has been raging for...

Days seem so exhilarating aboard a ship: surrounded by water, an ever-changing spectrum of blues, greys and black, the sky surrounds you like a great bowl. The colours change from Prussian blue, speckled with turquoise, white horses, to fifty shades of grey, with the horizon a thin silver line and a Biblical display of golden sunrays, spilling down. For Celia...