<span style='font-weight:bold;'>Three heartwarming and emotive family sagas set in the city of Birmingham, from top ten bestselling author Annie Murray.</span><br/><br/><span style='font-weight:bold;'>Birmingham Rose</span> by Annie Murray - Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. But her friendship with Diana, daught
Three heartwarming and emotive family sagas set in the city of Birmingham, from top ten bestselling author Annie Murray.
Birmingham Rose by Annie Murray - Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley, gives her hope. She learns to aspire to a different kind of existence, vowing never to become a child-bearing drudge like her mother. Life, however, never follows the way of dreams. After a childhood marked by tragedy, Rose eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. From Italy, where she has travelled during the Second World War, she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage, her hopes and illusions shattered. But Rose will not be defeated and she, too, is determined to rise once again above the devastation of her life...
Birmingham Blitz by Annie Murray - August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strangely liberating effect it all has on her mother... Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa, keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and tries to hold her family together. And amid it all, she discovers love...
Birmingham Friends by Annie Murray - Anna has always been exceptionally close to her mother, Kate, and as a child, was captivated by the stories her mother would tell of her childhood in Birmingham with her best friend, Olivia. Olivia and Kate seemed to have 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 close to. With Kate's words of caution ringing in her head, she goes in search of the one woman who can answer urgent questions about her mother's life, and about her own...
Birmingham Rose (paperback) has 488 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 3cm
Birmingham Blitz (paperback) has 436 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.6cm
Birmingham Friends (paperback) has 548 pages and measures: 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.2cm
