Thank you to Atlantic Books and NetGalley for the complimentary copy of Christmas with the Surplus Girls by Polly Heron.

This was a delight to read. I loved the characters and easily visualised each character because of the rich description of each one.
The story of Nancy Pike and how she is asked to leave her family and learn a skill that will help her family out of a dire financial predicament draws you in, and I couldn't wait to get back to the book whenever I had a spare moment.

As a romantic at heart, I did love the romance unfurling throughout the story. I loved that Zachary and Nancy finally found themselves in the right space at the right time to disclose how they really felt about each other.

I'm definitely reading the rest of the Surplus Girls books by Polly Heron.

Thanks again!

Another great book in this series. It is such a good historical saga. It is written so well and has a great cast of characters. Can’t wait for next in the series

Heartwarming. I really wish I could leave my review as being that one word, as it sums up this book perfectly. There, I have!

This was a brilliant read and is being featured on my blog for my quick star reviews feature, which I have created on my blog so I can catch up with all the books I have read and therefore review.
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4.5 stars
This was an amazing read. I loved every minute of it. This is acreal page turner of a novel.  Although this is part of a series of which I have not read the other book. It reads like a standalone book.  I was never lost nor felt like I had missed a critical point to the story and it certainly didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book at all. It is such a wonderful storyline with a few twists in there that I didn't see coming to keep you on the edge of your seat.  The characters were great with a wide variety of different personalities to enjoy. I felt a real connection with the main character and was willing her on hoping for the best. The flow of the book was excellent and was so easy to follow I flew through the book. I enjoyed the warm feeling and atmosphere that the story portrayed. Although it has Christmas in the title it can easily be read all year round as it was a light sprinkling of Christmas cheer towards the end of the book. Overall it was a wonderful reading experience. A real heartwarming tale. I will definitely be looking out for more titles by this author. 
So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for bringing such a delightful story for all of us to enjoy.
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It's 1922 and Nancy Pike is rather settled at her job in the pie shop. However, her father encourages her to better herself and enrols her as a new pupil at the Hesketh's school for 'surplus girls'.

At first, Nancy struggles to find her feet the world of admin but lands two placements. One at St Anthony's orphanage and another working for Mr Zachary Milner, who has a new start up business selling fire extinguishers. When Nancy makes a huge mistake, which comes at a huge financial cost to Mr Milner he has no choice but to let her go.

Nancy is determined to make things up to Mr. Milner but is also determined that the orphans have the best Christmas they have ever known! Will she succeed in spreading festive cheer?

Having thoroughly enjoyed The Surplus Girls by Polly Heron I was delighted to receive an ARC of Christmas with the Surplus Girls, which is book no.3 in the series. (Admittedly I haven't read book no.2 but didn't find this hindered me). It was lovely to see the return of some of the characters in the previous book and to delve deeper into their lives and what happened to them after the prequel.

Like the rest of the books in the series, Christmas with the Surplus Girls is very much themed on the life of women in the 1920s and the difficulties and prejudices they faced. This book had a particular focus on the stigma of pregnancy outside of marriage.

Overall, 5 stars. Polly Heron writes in a way which really takes you back to the era. Perfect for any historical fiction fans.

Christmas with the Surplus Girls will be published on the 1st January 2022. Thank you to Netgalley and Atlantic Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A very good book that was nice to read. It made me want to keep reading and not put it down. Well done.

A really good historical fiction read. Christmas with the Surplus Girls is the third book in the series but it can be read as a standalone. There's a lot of characters and different plots which keeps the reader's attention. Nancy is such a sweet and wonderful character and I developed such a soft spot for Patience and Predence. Overall, a really lovely read for historical fiction fans wanting to get into the festive spirit.

This was such a sweet sequel to the first Surplus girls book. I enjoyed this story immensely. It was a little different from the first one and dealt with a school training girls in office work and admin during the Second World War. It dealt with pregnancy and the stigma of unmarried mothers as well as people who had a tough life in these times. I hope there will be more books in this series in the future. My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.

I absolutely loved reading this wonderful book. It's heartwarming and full of Christmas spirit and so lovely to read.
Follow Nancy's story and the read about the orphanage she really wants to work at with the children, not an admin clerk which she really isn't good at..
It's such a lovely story definitely recommend this book.
Thanks to#NetGalley for the advance copy in return for an honest review.

I make so secret of the fact I love Polly Heron’s books, so the moment the review copy of this one was available I requested it and dived straight in. For a start, I think the premise of this series is brilliant; the stories of the women who had expected to marry, only for the First World War to kill do many men. Their battle to make something of their lives as single women in the 1920s is seldom told and quite frankly it should be.

A saga series needs central characters and for the Surplus Girls these take the form of unmarried sisters, Prudence and Patience Hesketh, who decide to run a business school from their home to train women in the skills they need. In this, the third book, our understanding of their position increases and their stories move on too, for one of them at least in quite an unexpected way.

Christmas with the Surplus Girls is a wonderful blend of the comfortingly familiar (characters from previous books making appearances, the orphanage as heart-warming seasonal setting, and, of course, the love story) with quite a few twists and turns. There are moments when nothing is quite as it seems, and breath-takingly written passages of true drama, but to say more would spoil it for the reader.

For the saga fan, this is the perfect Christmas read. As ever with Polly Heron’s writing there is no mawkish sentimentality, there is genuine emotion, elegantly portrayed. And even better, if you haven’t read the other Surplus Girls books there is still time to catch up with them before its time to pour yourself a glass of festive cheer and settle down with this beauty.

We follow the story of Nancy who changes jobs to please her father, she then starts to retrain for something she feels she isn’t very good at. This leads to other employment where she meets Mr Milner, will she live up to his expectations? Nancy lives with the misses
Hesketh, Patience and Prudence who I felt had the nature to match their names. Their pasts come to revisit, literally.
I enjoyed this book because it had family, love friendship and happiness.

Book Three in the Surplus girls.
Manchester 1922 September, Nancy Pike celebrates her nineteenth birthday and is happy in her job in Turner's pie shop but her Pa thinks she can better herself and enters her into a business night school at the Chorlton office in Wilton Close with Miss Patience and Miss Hesketh to train to do office work, she is the right age to become a Surplus Girl, and becoming a pupil-lodger installed in the old box room, she gives up her job in the pie shop after been accepted a position at St Anthony Orphanage as an office junior, oh she has come up in the world but its more money to be sent home.
And so Nancy's story begins and I loved every wholesome moment it's such a joy to read.
This book is not just for Christmas and I highly recommend it to my booklovers out there, this series is turning into a remarkable collection of our Surplus Girl's the author has the magic touch to draw you into every chapter. 5***** from me.

Wow loved the third book in this series. Love the book follows the girls in each book and feel like you are with them
If you love family saga and war books rolled into one you will love this
Can't wait for the next in the series