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Jennifer Ryan

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Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Jennifer grew up in the British countryside with a penchant for climbing trees and a wonderful grandmother who told her hilarious stories about the Second World War.

As an adult, she became a nonfiction book editor, first editing politics and economics at The Economist Books, and then moving on to the BBC, DK, and other publishers, editing books on health, cooking, wine, and history.

All this time, though, she harbored a longing to share her grandmother's stories about the war, and so she embarked on an MA in fiction at Johns Hopkins University. The novel that she wrote while there--The Chilbury Ladies' Choir--became a National Bestseller.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 98,112 ratings · 14,744 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Chilbury Ladies' Choir 3.97 avg rating — 35,488 ratings — published 2017 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kitchen Front 3.97 avg rating — 30,166 ratings — published 2021 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle 4.08 avg rating — 18,768 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Underground Library 4.13 avg rating — 6,881 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spies of Shilling Lane 3.71 avg rating — 6,965 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Kitchen Front: Simply Irresistable

My tantalizing new novel, The Kitchen Front, came out on February 23rd, 2021. It is a fun, fascinating tale of a cooking contest, using only rationed food in Second World War Britain.

Four different women cooks battle through three tests: starter, main course, and dessert, with the winner set to become the first female co-host of the BBC radio show, The Kitchen Front. For young widow Audrey, i Read more of this blog post »

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“If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: death, death-and-dying, life-lessons, women, women-s-rights, ww2

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“Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: courage, england, greed, human-nature, sacrifice, spite, uk, wisdom, ww2

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“Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: death, death-and-dying, england, loss, uk, ww2

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November BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ Final Poll

The Lying Game

by Ruth Ware

20 votes, 33.9%

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

by Jennifer Ryan

14 votes, 23.7%

Here and Gone

by Haylen Beck

10 votes, 16.9%

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

10 votes, 16.9%

America's First Daughter

by Stephanie Dray

5 votes, 8.5%

59 total votes

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“Grief feels a lot like fear. We’re afraid of it taking us over. But we owe it to ourselves, to those we have lost, to let grief in. Only then can we start to remember them with a cheer in our heart, a cheer for them and all that they were.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Spies of Shilling Lane

tags: book-club-books, historical-fiction, ww2

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“If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: death, death-and-dying, life-lessons, women, women-s-rights, ww2

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“And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise. Learning to smile, to put your best foot forward, when the world around you seems to have collapsed in its entirety, become a place of isolation, a sepia photograph of its former illusion.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: dunkirk, england, kent, uk, women, ww2-history

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“She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

tags: britain, dunkirk, england, kent, uk, women, ww2

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