Penny Thorpe

A delicious and heartwarming novel featuring the girls working at the nation’s favourite wrapped chocolate factory. At sixteen years old, Irene ‘Reenie’ Calder is leaving school with little in the way of qualifications. She is delighted to land a seasonal job at Mackintosh’s Quality...

Everything is changing at the Quality Street factory, can the plucky girls in the line make this a Christmas to remember? The Quality Street girls are gearing up for Christmas, but with the factory now making gas masks, as well as the nation’s favourite chocolate sweets, it’s anything but...

The ups and down of three plucky factory girls, set in Britain’s best loved wrapped chocolate factory. The Quality Street Factory is fizzing with the news that the King and Queen and the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, are going to visit the Mackintosh Factory where the...

Romance is in the air at the nation’s favourite sweet factory Rumours about a war with Germany have been whispered around the Quality Street factory for months. It’s hard for everyone to get their heads around air raids, rationing and the threat of bombings, so to distract themselves, they...