Wonder Girls

I enjoyed Wonder Girls by Catherine Jones which is set in both 1920s and 2009.  The characters are fictitious and one of them, Ida, swims the hazardous Bristol Channel in the 1920s when aged 16.  She and her best friend Freda decide to leave their small "gossipy" town to live in "the big smoke", London.  Freda forges a successful career as a nurse, then midwife while Ida eventually is successful in advertising but marries a philandering newspaper man.  Regrettably, Ida and Freda drift apart until a tragedy forces them together.  Meanwhile, in 2009, Ceci, aged in her 80s, is mourning the death of her "companion" Freda and wishes she had been told more about her past before they met 60 years before.  Ceci meets a young woman Sarah who is going through a "bad patch" with her marriage.  Sarah encourages Ceci to find out more about the people who left her and Freda many years before.  There is a mystery to be uncovered about what happened to Ida, which makes a good story. 31/2/5