The Fancy is set in an aircraft factory during the dark days of the Second world War Inspired by Monica Dickens's own experiences of working in wartime, it takrs us into the lives of the employees - Edward Sheila, Dinah and the others - who bail from a motley of backgrounds and circumstances

How they adjust to their surroundings and each other, and hoto they solve their personal problems whilst coping with the

grinding pressures of work, makes this one of Monica Dickens's most absorbing novels Cover illustration by Claire Davies.