Joanna Toye is a former BBC scriptwriter and producer. She worked for over 30 years on Radio 4's much-loved 'The Archers', as well as on 'Crossroads', Family Affairs', 'Doctors' and 'EastEnders'. She has nine previous TV and radio spin-off books to her credit, but 'A Store At War' is her first original novel, the first in a series of four. It draws on her Midland roots and vivid family memories of the Second World War, as well as anecdotes and research into how shopping used to be - long before the internet was ever thought of!