From the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in Mary Wood's The Guernsey Girls series.Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but soon Annie discovers battles brewing closer to home . . . Annie’s sister Janey begins to unravel, and only Annie can pick up the pieces. With London’s police officers on the front line, Annie is forced to step up at work and do her bit for the country.In Guernsey, Olivia finds herself without her husband and son just as Hitler invades the island. Now trapped and heartbroken she faces untold horrors as the Germans tighten their hold on the islanders.How will Annie survive being in the thick of the blitz – her responsibilities to her country, her family, while suffering the heartache of not knowing what is happening to her beloved Ricky? Can Olivia survive in Guernsey at the hands of the enemy?

Wood is a born storyteller, A cosy fireside read

Born the thirteenth child of fifteen to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary Wood’s childhood was a mixture of love and poverty. Throughout her life, Mary has held various posts in office roles, working in the probation services, and brought up her four children and numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989 while nursing her mother through her final months, but didn’t become successful until she began self-publishing her writing in 2011.Her novels include the Jam Factory Girls series, the Orphanage Girls series, All I Have to Give, An Unbreakable Bond, In Their Mother’s Footsteps and the Breckton novels.