Anne Dover

As the worst storm of the century breaks across the North West, two women give birth to girls in a Liverpool maternity hospital. The two become friends and both go back to live in Snowdonia together. But somebody else is watching.

On her deathbed, Lucy Fallow's mother makes her 12-year-old daughter promise to look after her four younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers. When the Fallow menfolk lose their jobs they take work wherever they can. But it's not long before they are working on the wrong side of the law and under the watchful eye of Tom

It's 1939, and three ten-year-old girls meet on a station platform. Imogen, Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it difficult to place them. When Auntie and her niece, Jill, who run the Canary and Linnet Public House, offer to take them in, the billeting officer is greatly relieved. The countryside i