A Wartime Secret [electronic resource]
Murray, Annie2017
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A Wartime Secret is the moving short story of a family torn apart by war, from bestselling author Annie Murray. Some lies are harder to hide . . . Grace and Ted Chapman married at the beginning of the war, but then Ted was called up to fight . . . Grace was left alone, fearful that her beloved Ted would never return. With the passage of time, Grace began to create a new life and found comfort in the arms of another man. Then along came the birth of a little girl, baby Barbara. One morning, Grace receives a telegram out of the blue, she learns that Ted is alive and on his way home. News of his return sends Grace into a sick panic and she begs her sister Joan to look after her daughter. When Ted returns back to Birmingham, he is shell-shocked and fragile - all the while Grace is tormented. Just how far is Grace willing to go, in order to protect her secret?
Main title:
A Wartime Secret [electronic resource] / Annie Murray
Author:
Murray, Annie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John's College, Oxford. Her first Birmingham novel, Birmingham Rose, hit The Sunday Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many other successful novels, including War Babies and Girls in Tin Hats and the bestselling novels Chocolate Girls, Sisters of Gold and Black Country Orphan. Annie has four children, all Birmingham born and she lives near Oxford.
ISBN:
9781509841578
Language:
English
BRN:
2803282
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