Daisy Styles

Daisy Styles writes British historical sagas about women's work, friendship, and resilience on the home front during the Second World War. The Bomb Girls’ Secrets occupies book two of her Bomb Girls sequence, following The Bomb Girls and preceding Christmas with the Bomb Girls. Penguin issued it in 2017. It brings Kitty from Ireland to a Lancashire munitions factory, where demanding shifts and urgent financial need place her among Gladys, Violet, Lily, and other workers who gradually become trusted friends. The story balances factory routines with dancing, companionship, and the private concern Kitty has carried from home. Styles sets the series in a landscape she knew through Lancashire family history and stories about women employed in wartime industry. The Bomb Girls’ Secrets uses that setting to show how shared labor can create an improvised community. Kitty's adjustment to unfamiliar work gives the novel its historical frame, while mutual confidence among the women drives its emotional development.