Plucky Lucy Linden is the mainstay of her family, selling firewood and toffee apples on the streets of Liverpool to support her widowed mother and little brother. Her uncanny ability to be in the right place at the wrong time gets her noticed by upright, young police constable Rob Jones, who decides to keep a watchful eye over her - much to her annoyance. But when Lucy's uncle returns from the Great War with a tendency to lash out, her attitude towards Rob changes. For while she must appear strong for her family's sake, Rob turns out to be someone she can trust with her innermost secrets and fears. But there's one secret she can't quite bring herself to tell him ...
- ISBN10 0749954124
- ISBN13 9780749954123
- Publish Date 3 February 2011 (first published 23 November 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 March 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English