Book description
February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London's East End as
a midwife when a bombing raid destroys her family and the house she
grew up in. All she has left is her motherless baby nephew William.
Determined to uphold her promise to her sister to keep William safe
until his father, Bill, returns from the war, she accepts a post as a
midwife in Cliffehaven on the south-coast of England. Here they are
taken under the wing of the Reilly family at the Beach View boarding house.
But all too soon Julie learns that Bill is 'missing in action' and
William falls dangerously ill. As she begins the long vigil by
William's beside, she fears she will lose the little boy she has grown
to love as her own.
Ellie Dean lives in Eastbourne, which has been her home for many
years and where she raised her three children. She is also the author of
THERE'LL BE BLUE SKIES
,
FAR FROM HOME
and KEEP SMILING THROUGH.
