Katie Flynn
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2014
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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
8) Heading home
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Claudia Muldoon & her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents & their gran in her house in Blodwen Street. The family assume they are settled for life, but then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure & begs his son to return to Ireland & the family croft.
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Liverpool 1938. It's Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous twin daughters April and May have no idea of the cataclysmic events which will soon overtake them. When war is declared, April and May are evacuated to the countryside and Rosheen joins the WAAF where she befriends fellow Liverpudlian Cassie Valentine
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Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find themselves entrusted to the far from tender care of a hated neighbour, Mrs Huxtable. They hope their father will rescue them when his ship comes into port but this does not happen and when Cyril Huxtable is seen by the children hiding 'a wad of notes' aw
16) A mother's hope
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Pub. Date
2009
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Martin is hitching to Liverpool when a bus approaches. It stops, ejects a weeping girl, & then speeds off. Companions in misfortune, Martin & Rose slog on together. Each has a secret which neither wishes to part with.