Book description
Brought together by friendship, torn apart by love...
Meg Hughes, Tom Fraser and Martin Hunter were friends who had grown
up together in the grinding poverty of a Liverpool orphanage. Their
prospects looked bleak until the friends were sent to help out at
Hemingway Shipping Line's emigrant lodging house. Then their youthful
high spirits blossomed into their plans for the future.
But the First World War brought an end to those plans, and
threatened to separate them.
As time passes, Meg grows more and more beautiful, and the love the
two men feel for her becomes passionately possessive. Meg, in
different ways, is in love with both Tom and Martin . . . and is to
bear a child by one of them.
Grief and suffering, as well as happiness and hope, must all play
their part before the childhood friends' deep and complex
relationships are finally and tragically resolved.
Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to
write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop
assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in
Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels. She lives in
St Anne's on Sea, her childhood home.
