A Penny a Shell

🔥 “A Penny a Shell is a heartfelt, character-driven story that draws you in gently and stays with you long after the final page. A FINALIST and highly recommended!” - Wishing Shelf Book Awards

For the invisible army of women fighting the Great War, the home front is the front line.

Yorkshire, 1916.

At the Barnbow munitions factory, women are paid a penny for every shell they fill.

Speed means money.

Speed means survival.

But in a factory thick with explosive TNT dust, speed also means death.

Eliza, Sarah, and Lucy are part of the invisible army keeping Britain’s guns firing—until the day Room 42 explodes.

A Penny a Shell is a powerful novel based on the true story of the Barnbow Lasses, and one of the deadliest factory disasters of the First World War.