Book description
Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville
factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child
called David.
Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family
home. Widowed at 19 and, after losing her child from the marriage, she
faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an
infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her
care...
Ruby, meanwhile, doesn't want to be left behind in the wedding stakes
and settles for marriage with Frank.
Finally there's Janet, kind-hearted and susceptible to male charm, who
is hurt desperately by an affair with a married man.
David, the child who steals Edie's heart as she brings him up through a
time none of them will ever forget, is the love of all their lives. And
when David is old enough to wonder who he really is, he leads Edie
through struggle and heartache to a life and love she would never have
dreamed of... Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at
St John’s College, Oxford. Her first ‘Birmingham’ novel, Birmingham
Rose, hit The Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She
has subsequently written nine other successful novels, including, most
recently, Where Earth Meets Sky. Annie Murray has four children and
lives in Reading.
