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1939: Genie Watkins has always dreamed of having a proper happy family. She pines for the one that her friend Teresa has. But with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family faces challenges and risks falling apart completely . . .Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa. She tries to make light of it all, against the odds, and keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous Auntie Lil. But ju...

Anna has always been exceptionally close to her mother, Kate, and as a child, was captivated by the stories she would tell of her childhood in Birmingham with her best friend, Olivia. Theirs was a magical friendship.But when Kate dies, she leaves her daughter a final story, one that this time tells the whole truth of her life with Olivia Kemp. As Anna reads, she is shocked to discover how little she really knew about the mother she felt so clo...

Out of heartbreak, hope is born . . . Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie ever craved was a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much but this never tainted her spirit. If it wasn’t for her best friend Gary, and friendly dog called Whisky, Evie might never have made it to her sixteenth birthday. At sixteen she meets Ken, a sweet, brown-e...

Rachel Booker has had a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, it's up to her mother to make ends meet. Hardened by the daily struggle, she has little time left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work together at Birmingham's Rag Market, selling second-hand clothes to put a little food on the table.There is a silver lining as Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny, at the market. As they grow ol...

Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker's life. Her family is reunited, and life settles into a routine - but Rachel yearns for more. Melly, Rachel's eldest daughter, is a child of the war. She grew up in the bombed-out streets of Birmingham, and has never known anything other than supporting her family. But times are changing and Melly now has a fresh future ahead of her - she's determined to ...

Two families. Two wartime loves .Their lives changed forever ...

Another heartwarming and compelling saga from the bestselling author of A Hopscotch Summer and Soldier Girl

In Annie Murray's bestselling Chocolate Girls, three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child called David.Edie marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen and, after losing her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is han...

A tale of hardship and social injustice, Miss Purdy's Class by Annie Murray is a heartfelt saga with strong emotional relationships at its heart.In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged twenty-one, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she has the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early weeks in Birmingham are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a clas...

The sequel to "The Chocolate Girls", set in 1960s Birmingham. New edition.

Two daughters. Two mothers. The secrets of two lifetimes.

Lily was abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a young girl. With few clues as to her identity, she endured a childhood of loneliness and loss. At the age of eighteen, she applies for a post as nanny with a family in Ambala in northern India and is soon drawn into the emotional life of the Fairfords. Lily forms a strong attachment to the son of Captain Fairford and his wife, two-year-old Cosmo.When Lily meets the family's mechanic, Sam Ironside, t...

An emotional tale of resilience by Annie Murray, A Hopscotch Summer tells the story of a young girl and her struggle to keep her family afloat.In the impoverished area of Nechells in Birmingham in the 1930s, young Emma Brown's life is turned upside down when her mother, Cynthia, has another baby.Emma has always been a happy-go-lucky child, content as long as things were all right at home with her parents, and her brother and sister. But when t...

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Birmingham, 1942. After a childhood of suffering, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband Joel and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the back-breaking labour and constant childbearing take their toll on Maryann, and following the tragic loss of her old friend Nancy, and a further pregnancy, Maryann is forced to take desperate measures - with horrifying consequences....

Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But more heartache is to come when her mother marries Norman Griffin, the local undertaker, in an attempt to better herself and her family. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems - as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover. Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother for support, the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret. ...

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