Three Women of Liverpool

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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, Ellen, Gwen and Emmie, 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.

Emmie’s biggest fear is for the safety of her merchant seaman fiancé, far away in the South Atlantic.

She lives with her sister-in-law Gwen while she awaits his safe return. Keeping her home perfect absorbs all Gwen’s time and energy.

Their next-door neighbor Ellen’s house is destroyed by bombs. How will she care for her five children and husband as poverty threatens?

Their lives changed forever when the air raid siren sounded for the first time on 1 May, 1941.

Discover their fates as they struggle through all the twists and turns of wartime.