"When Lulla Riddel, ex-barmaid of the Royal Arms, Muckadilla, comes to Brisbane to join the Navy, she's told in no uncertain terms that the Navy can't use shortsighted strawberry blondes.

But MacIntyre's Mills Bomb factory can.

At MacIntyre's she meets Peggy and Janet. For the three of them, life in wartime Brisbane is full of dancing and loving, brawling and weeping - where high adventure is only a tram far away, and where laughter echoes around the rooms in Lennons Hotel while the troopships wait on the tide.

And as for the service personnel, who pour into Brisbane by the thousands en route to the jungles of New Guinea and the Pacific, well, Lulla's going to make it her business to meet every one of them....."

I am sending a bag of books to the local Salvos donation bin tomorrow, this will be one of them. Happy Reading :)