Polly Heron Books In Order

Publication Order of Surplus Girls Books

Polly Heron is a published British author. She is also known by the names Susannah Bavin and Maisie Thomas for writing. For Maisie, she writes the Railway Girls WW2 saga series, a bestselling series. Under the Susannah Bavin name, she has penned four stand-alone sagas as well as a new WW2 saga series called The Home Front Girls.

She is known for writing The Surplus girls series, a 1920s saga series. The series first got started with the publication of The Surplus Girls, the debut novel, in 2020. The series focuses on a group of young women whose lives where forever changed by the arrival of the Great War. The huge loss of life among the soldiers ended up meaning that many of the girls lost potential husbands and a generation of young ladies found that they were in the position of having to face a future where they fend for themselves, without the necessary education or training.

Polly Heron is married and resides on the coast of North Wales with her husband and their two rescue cats. She has originally come from Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester. Her family has resided there for several generations and she’s included it as the setting for her family sagas.

The Surplus Girls is the first book in the series by the same name written by Polly Heron. If you love a good book set in a historical period of time, be sure to give this book a try!

After the loss of the war, is there any chance that there is hope for the future? The year is 1922 and the place is Manchester. Belinda Layton is what you call a surplus girl. This means that she has been one of many women who had dreams of marriage that died along with their future spouses in the Great War. This is what happened to Belinda, when her fiancé Ben passed away.

She has been in the process of mourning for four years, but now that that is up, she is ready to face the future. Even if Ben’s family is not happy that they are seeing that she is moving on, she has to do it. She also is not loving the fact that her own family only cares about whether or not they can get hold of her not that impressive factory wages.

Belinda decides to join a secretarial class. From there she finds out that a whole new world has opened up to her and she also finds herself drawn to Richard Carson, an intriguing bookshop owner. But after all that she has been through emotionally, all of the loss and the devastation, will she really be able to relax and trust him with all of her heart? Read this book to find out!

The Surplus Girls’ Orphans is the second book in The Surplus Girls series by Polly Heron. If you loved the first book in this series, go ahead and give the sequel a try!

The year is 1922 and the place is Manchester. After months of dealing with the same thing, main character Molly Watson is starting to decide that she has finally had enough. She has been engaged for the past three years to a penny pincher, and after reflecting on it she decides that she would prefer to be a surplus girl in place of getting married to a man that she does not truly love.

She’s aware that she has to support herself more if she is going to remain single for all of her life, so she decides to join a secretarial class so that she can learn new skills. But in the process, an entire world opens up to her.

Then she gets a job at St. Anthony’s Orphanage, where she makes friends with caretaker Aaron Abrams. But then a misunderstanding means that they are at odds and even damages her reputation in the eyes of the children that she’s come to care about. Can she repair her reputation, livelihood, and her friendship before it’s too late? Is it possible to turn things around? Read this book to find out!