Book description
It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of
life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . .
Katie O’Neill’s childhood has been dominated by her temperamental
mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent,
yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left
outcast and alone with her young son.
Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her
husband Norm to return and meet the son he has never seen. But she soon
finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of
problems.
And Molly Fox, after a sad and brutal childhood, found a place to
belong during the war, in the women’s army, the ATS. Now, the women are
no longer wanted and Molly finds peacetime a bleak, difficult challenge.
Finding work in guesthouses and holiday camps, she keeps running from
herself, in search of a place she can call home.
All the Days of Our Lives is the story of three girls who first met in
a Birmingham classroom in the 1930s, each facing life with all its joys,
sorrows and surprises. 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 many other successful novels, including A Hopscotch Summer
, Soldier Girl
and the bestselling Chocolate Girls
. Annie has four children and lives near Reading.
