Product Description

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, so when the war is over and they return to nurse in Liverpool, their future seems bleak. Very soon, however, their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman and goes to live on a cattle station in the Outback, while 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 Royal Air Force 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...From the rigours of the Australian Outback to war-ravaged Liverpool, Debbie and Pete are drawn together...and torn apart...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1313583 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-15
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

From the Publisher
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Long and Lonely Road

From the Inside Flap
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, so when the war is over and they return to nurse in Liverpool, their future seems bleak.

Very soon, however, their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman and goes to live on a cattle station in the Outback, while 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 Royal Air Force 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...

From the rigours of the Australian Outback to war-ravaged Liverpool, Debbie and Pete are drawn together... and torn apart...

£18.99

From the Back Cover
Praise for Katie Flynn

'She's a challenge to Josephine Cox' Bookseller

'Few writers have a fan base as wide and varied as Katie Flynn and devotees won't be disappointed' Scottish Daily Record

'One of the best Liverpool writers' Liverpool Echo

'If you pick up a Katie Flynn book it's going to be a wrench to put it down again' Holyhead and Angelsey Mail
'A heartwarming story of love and loss' Woman's Weekly

Customer Reviews

Orphans of the storm
Absolutely brilliant! Hooked from the first pages, have neglected my house for 4 nights and (afternoons don't tell anyone!) because I couldn't put this book down. Love it, the characters were "real" and "the landscape" painted in every vivid colour of the war, . A complete page turner.
If people don't mind you ignoring them, then get this book.

Lovely story
What a lovely story! It took me a while to get into the book, and even longer for the story to actually start but it was definitely worth reading. It's written in very simple language and the story is pretty typical, but it's a nice, easy book to settle down with if you've been doing a lot of work or are going through a hard time. I may consider getting hold of a another of her novels when exam time comes around!