No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion Oncology But under the burning midsummer

But under the burning midsummer sun

and she knows she has no choice but to risk her life for her country once more…

‘I was completely wrong-footed’

and healing from past trauma…Anxious Gaia’s difficult background and social awkwardness will endear her to many readers’ Publishers Weekly

'The queen of YA crime Holly Jackson returns with a blisteringly good standalone thriller' – Observer

No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion Oncology But under the burning midsummerThe acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War IIthe 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Womens Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing