The first time Jessie laid her eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain. Then she was the sheltered, dreamy minister's daughter, determined to take a bite out of life. And he was the fighter from the wrong side of the tracks, hell-bent on proving himself in the world. They had nothing in common, separate destinies.
But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change - and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs . . .
- ISBN10 0749942673
- ISBN13 9780749942670
- Publish Date 2 July 2009 (first published 23 January 1986)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Piatkus Books
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 352
- Language English