
Orphans of the Storm
Audio Book
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN10: 1845594584
ISBN13: 9781845594589
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: Oct 1 2006
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781845594589
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: Oct 1 2006
Language: English
Jess and Nancy, girls from very different backgrounds, are nursing in France during the Great War. They have much in common for both have lost their lovers in the trenches and when the war is over, they return to a bleak future, nursing in Liverpool. Very soon, however, their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman and goes to live in the Outback, whilst Jess marries a Liverpudlian. Both have children; Nancy's eldest is Pete, and Jess has a daughter, Debbie, yet their lives couldn't be more different. When the Second World War is declared, Pete joins the RAF and comes to England, promising his mother that he will visit her old friend. In the thick of the May blitz, with half of Liverpool demolished and thousands dead. Pete arrives in the city to find Jess's home destroyed and her daughter missing. Pete decides that, whatever the cost, he must find her...
Also in
General Fiction
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R. F.
Paperback
$18.00