Dancing at the Victory Café
By: Leah Fleming
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781471159121; 9781471159145
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Friendship; Bars (Drinking establishments); Americans; Fiction
Description: When Isobel Morton takes over the cafe in Lichfield's market square, she has big plans. Soon renamed The Victory Cafe, with a menu that delights despite rations, the girls who work at the Vic are swept away by Belle's lust for life. Among the regular customers is a trio of soldiers from the nearby American base and waitress Dorrie Goodman soon befriends them, learning about jazz and romance in the process. But the stifling morality of a Midlands town in the 40s cannot accommodate such a friendship; jealously, hatred and the weight of public disapproval combine to precipitate a tragedy. It is not until many years after the war that friendship and reconciliation can begin to heal the wounds of the past ...
Notes: Originally published: Coronet, 1995.