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  • Published: 7 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804998908
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $28.00
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A Promise for Tomorrow




The brand new uplifiting WW2 saga about a local newspaper in a small Norfolk town, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Elaine Everest.

Will she find the strength to start again?

When Jenny Gregory leaves wartime London for the quiet town of Allanby Cross, she feels as though her hopes for the future are slipping away. But an unexpected offer to become the editor for the struggling Allanby Cross Gazette gives her a chance to begin again.

Eager to prove herself, Jenny throws her energy into reviving the paper and finding her place in the community. But when mistakes and mishaps begin to threaten her hard work, she starts to suspect someone wants her to fail.

With the support of new friends, Jenny must hold her nerve and uncover the truth before her chance at a fresh start slips through her fingers...

  • Published: 7 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804998908
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

Lesley Eames

Lesley is an author of historical sagas. Having previously written sagas set around the time of the First World War, she ventured into the Second World War period with her fifth book, The Wartime Bookshop. Originally from the north west of England (Manchester), Lesley's home is now Hertfordshire where The Wartime Bookshop's fictional village of Churchwood is set. Lesley is thrilled to have enjoyed success in competitions as varied as crime writing to writing for children. She is particularly honoured to have won the Festival of Romance New Talent Award, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Trophy and to have been twice shortlisted in the UK Romantic Novel Awards (RONAs).

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