Liverpool, May 1941. The worst week of the Blitz. Helen Forrester produces another moving novel set on Merseyside.
An extraordinary story of three brave women, each trying in her own way to deal with the brutal tide of destruction brought on by the air raids of the Second World War. There is Ellen - whose home is destroyed by bombs; Gwen, whose family absorbs all her time and energy; and Emmie, whose only fears are for the safety of her merchant seaman fiance, far away in the South Atlantic. None of them were prepared for what would follow, when the air raid siren sounded for the first time on 1 May, 1941...
- ISBN10 0719807646
- ISBN13 9780719807640
- Publish Date 31 October 2012 (first published January 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Robert Hale & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English