Across the Mersey
By: Annie Groves
Publisher: HarperCollins; HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; HarperCollins UK
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780007265275; 9780007265282; 9780007857951
Subjects: Social aspects; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Jean and Vi are twins but couldn't be more different. Jean's proud of her honest, hardworking husband and their children, but there's never a penny to spare. Vi's equally proud of her husband's new role as a local councillor and their elegant new house, and has raised her children to expect the best. As war breaks out, agonising decisions must be faced. Should the oldest children enlist? Should the youngest be evacuated? All the traditional certainties are overturned. Then the twins' own younger sister, singer Francine, returns home unexpectedly and stirs up the past, even in the midst of present danger. This is a tremendous saga of fighting spirit and family closeness, and the belief that even though today is full of destruction and pain, there is hope for a better tomorrow.