Book description
Home for Christmas is a tale of four very different young women thrown
together by war. Finding freedom and independence - as well as love,
passion and heartbreak - for the very first time, a unique bond is
formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.
It's September 1940 and the German blitz on London has just begun. The
four young girls who live at No. 13 Article Row live under its constant
threat. But life must go on…
Tilly and Sally both work at Barts Hospital where they witness the
cruelty of war first-hand.
Agnes volunteers to work extra hours at her underground station to help
with the nightly influx of people seeking safety from the bombs.
Dulcie, with her broken ankle, tries to make peace with her mother,
following the news of the death of her sister Enid. But her
grief-stricken mother doesn't want to know.
Sally returns to her painful past in Liverpool. But it's not seeing the
man she once loved, nor her father and ex-best friend's child that hurt most…
As Christmas approaches, the arrival of the handsome young American
Drew, ignites new life in the heart Tilly thought was broken.
As the bombs continue to rain down on a frosty London, perilous
challenges lay around every corner. And all anyone wants this year is to
be home for Christmas. Praise for Annie Groves:
'An engrossing story' My Weekly
'A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change
when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and
dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate story'
Liverpool Daily Post
'Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure - a tragic indictment of
what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!'
Take a Break
'Written from the heart' My Weekly Annie Groves was born and lived in
the north-west of England all of her life. She was the author of the
Pride family series, Ellie Pride, Connie's Courage and Hettie of Hope
Street, for which she drew upon her own family's history, picked up from
listening to her grandmother's stories when she was a child. Her next
set of novels was the World War II series Goodnight Sweetheart, Some
Sunny Day, The Grafton Girls and As Time Goes By. These were followed by
the Campion series, Across the Mersey, Daughters of Liverpool, The Heart
of the Family, Where the Heart Is and When the Lights Go on Again, which
are also based on recollections from members of her family, who come
from the city of Liverpool. My Sweet Valentine follows on from Home for
Christmas and London Belles and is the third in this series, which
introduces a set of glorious characters living in Article Row in Holborn.
Annie Groves, whose real name was Penny Halsall, also wrote under the
name of Penny Jordan and was an international bestselling author of over
170 novels with sales of over 84 million copies.
Sadly, Penny Halsall died in 2011. She left a wonderful legacy of
heart-warming novels for many more fans to discover and she will be
greatly missed by all who knew her.
The final books in the Article Row series, Only a Mother Knows and A
Christmas Promise, will be published posthumously in 2013.
