Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Teashop Girls | 2019 | Elaine Everest | Buy |
| 2 | Christmas with the Teashop Girls | 2020 | Elaine Everest | Buy |
| 3 | The Teashop Girls at War | 2024 | Elaine Everest | Buy |
The Teashop Girls centres on young women who have left their home lives to work in the NAAFI (the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes), the organisation responsible for providing canteen and leisure services to British military personnel during the Second World War. The teashop setting gives Everest a backdrop that is both domestic and close to the war’s realities, as the women serve servicemen who may be about to leave for the front or return from it.
The first book establishes the central friendships and the wartime pressures that shape them. Christmas with the Teashop Girls (2020) follows the festive season with the warm seasonal feel that Everest brings to her Christmas titles, while The Teashop Girls at War (2024) returns to the series after a gap to continue the story further into the conflict. Fans of wartime women’s fiction who have already read the Woolworths books will find much that is familiar here, though the characters and storylines are entirely distinct.