Canary Girls: A Novel

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch.

Early in the Great War, as men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist, a new front opened at home. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the we...