Published by Orion Books, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1407226142 ISBN 13: 9781407226149
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Slight corner crease to front cover, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing of assumed paperback original edition as no other printings listed, 2005. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. Cover design by Rose Cooper with photo courtesy of Lambert / Getty Images. ; 416 pages; On a stormy September night in 1920, two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same Liverpool house. Enemies at first, they become friends, united by separate troubles that turn their lives upside down. But friendship between their daughters, Cara and Sybil, is another matter. Nineteen years later, at the beginning of the Second World War, Cara and Sybil find themselves thrown together when they both enlist and are stationed in Malta. It is a time of live-changing repercussions for them both while, back home in Liverpool, the bombs rain down on a defiant city. Mass Market PB.