The Resistance Girls
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley May 17, 2025
Author Alice G May
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-1837035038
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Release Date: April 2025
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It is March 1942 and Wren, Serenity Ashworth, has just made a major change in her, to date, very formal and constricted life by signing the Official Secrets Act, committing her to working within the secretive corridors of the British Government to pit her skills against Hitler and any possible or even probable invasion of England.
Her father would be furious and her beloved twin Tommy still felt that she should be doing something out of the way of harm, preferably at home well away from danger. She was determined that for once in her life she was going to do something useful, learn new skills and go wherever they sent her; scared not at all but a little intrigued, definitely.
She meets Captain Edward Landers, a long-time friend of her brothers as she is farewelling Tommy off to his base to train as a fighter pilot, a man she finds has a most unusual effect on her senses, and as it turns out a man she will met again in her new role at her home of Ashworth House.
Wren passes her training courses and is sent back to Ashworth House to take up what appears to be her old role of Secretary but she is in reality on the lookout for a German infiltrator working somewhere in the area.
The work is dangerous, highly classified and when Edward Landers arrives to take charge of the newly establish Maternity Hospital and strategic base she begins to realise she feels emotionally attracted to him, which could cause some serious complications in her work.
As the days pass they fall into a comfortable working relationship, but then there are the nights when Wren goes out for a run and she takes note of her surroundings; that Edward often swims in the sea and is perhaps a double agent. He begins to believe the same of her!
Wren and Edward have to come to terms with the fact that neither of them can say what they are actually doing, have to learn to trust one another and work together to discover what is behind the information that there are U Boats operating off the coast and why!
Alice G May has captured well the emotions and dedication of the young men and women who took up the challenge to keep Britain safe during the War years, putting their lives on hold, undertaking dangerous work day after ruthless day.
There was a Special Forces Unit established to undertake clandestine work, consisting of women who became highly trained and secretive operatives, so secretive that there is very little recorded history or their operations to be discovered.
What Alice May discovered and the people of the Unit who left only a delicate trace has once again come to life in this captivating story The Resistance Girls which is the first in a series which will be well worth following.