Home Fires is a TV series created by Simon Block in 2015 and inspired by the book Jambusters: The Women’s Institute at War 1939-1945 by Julie Summers, first published in 2013. The TV series features Clare Calbraith, Brian Fletcher, Samantha Bond, Ruth Gemmell, Claire Price, Daniel Ryan, and others.
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“The TV series is better than the book”
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Storyline
The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the characters find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Movie vs Book
Year
2015
Minutes
45
Movie Rate
8.20
Source: IMDb
Year
2013
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.28
S: Goodreads
Book
Jambusters
Subtitle: The Women's Institute at War 1939-1945
Author: Julie Summers
Country: UK
First published in: 2013
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.”
BRIAN SELZNICK (Writer)
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