The Chocolate Box Girls

Rowntrees Factory, York 1936 
 
The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on her face. Living and schooling on Haxby Road alongside the Rowntrees Chocolate Factory, Molly watched the daily trudge of women employed there in their white uniforms as she sat at her school desk. 
 
When Molly secures a job on the production line at the factory, she's excited to become one of these women. As she labours hard at the factory, she meets Connie. Quickly the two form a close friendship, and Molly begins to see the world differently. 
 
Living their lives to the fullest, loving the wrong men, working long hours, and sharing tears of friendship and heartbreak but always being known and being proud to be called The Rowntrees Chocolate Box Girls Molly and Connie make the most of their lives.

Gracie Hart was born in Leeds and raised on the family farm in the Yorkshire Dales. She writes sagas with a focus on the wars and her native Yorkshire. 
 
She began her career as a glass engraver before raising her family, Gracie has now written several family sagas. 
 
Gracie Hart also writes as Diane Allen and averages a 4.5 star review rating across her titles.

The Chocolate Box Girls Find Love

PRE-ORDER THE EMOTIONAL CONCLUSION TO THE ROWNTREES GIRL SERIES! 
 
January 1945. The end of the war at last feels within reach, and the Rowntrees workers dream of returning to work on chocolate rather than munitions. Within the Freeman household, there are also dreams of a romantic nature. 
 
Rose cannot wait for the day she will marry Ned, and he no longer flies off on terrifying raids over Germany. Landgirl Annie is also to be wed, after accepting a romantic proposal from farmer, Mike. 
 
Youngest sister Molly has a less happy romantic adventure, though mother Winnie is determined to play cupid with someone much more suitable. 
 
The Freemans have never had their hands so full. But with VE Day approaching, a street party to plan for as well as the weddings, they look to a future filled with hope . . .

January 1945. The end of the war at last feels within reach, and the Rowntrees workers dream of returning to work on chocolate rather than munitions. Within the Freeman household, there are also dreams of a romantic nature. 
 
Rose cannot wait for the day she will marry Ned, and he no longer flies off on terrifying raids over Germany. Landgirl Annie is also to be wed, after accepting a romantic proposal from farmer, Mike. 
 
Youngest sister Molly has a less happy romantic adventure, though mother Winnie is determined to play cupid with someone much more suitable. 
 
The Freemans have never had their hands so full. But with VE Day approaching, a street party to plan for as well as the weddings, they look to a future filled with hope . . .

The Sweet Shop in the Shambles

Gracie Hart was born in Leeds and raised on the family farm in the Yorkshire Dales. She writes sagas with a focus on the wars and her native Yorkshire. 
 
She began her career as a glass engraver before raising her family, Gracie has now written several family sagas. 
 
Gracie Hart also writes as Diane Allen and averages a 4.5 star review rating across her titles.

The start of a new, heart warming trilogy set on York's picturesque cobbled streets.

Gracie Hart

York, 1940 
 
World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntrees factory, and with rationing crippling the country, chocolate production has been driven to a bare minimum. It's all change for the Freeman sisters when the Rowntrees factory is turned over to making munitions. 
 
Molly is put on the fuse and detonator line, soon becoming skilled at her work despite the dangers. Rose copes with husband Ned&rsquo;s absence with the RAF by relishing her position on the Board. And Annie joins the Land Army, billeted to a pig farm in Lancashire. 
 
Despite the heartache and worry, nothing will stop the Freeman sisters from doing all they can for their 
men and country.

Gracie Hart

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