Home for Christmas
- Author Annie Groves
- Narrator Sue Jenkins
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 27 October 2011
- Run Time 8 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Generational sagas, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Second World War fiction.
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What to expect
Home for Christmas is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.
It's September 1940 and the German blitz on London has just begun. The four young girls who live at No. 13 Article Row live under its constant threat. But life must go on…
Tilly and Sally both work at Barts Hospital where they witness the cruelty of war first-hand.
Agnes volunteers to work extra hours at her underground station to help with the nightly influx of people seeking safety from the bombs.
Dulcie, with her broken ankle, tries to make peace with her mother, following the news of the death of her sister Enid. But her grief-stricken mother doesn't want to know.
Sally returns to her painful past in Liverpool. But it's not seeing the man she once loved, nor her father and ex-best fiend's child that hurt most…
As Christmas approaches, the arrival of the handsome young American Drew, ignites new life in the heart Tilly thought was broken.
As the bombs continue to rain down on a frosty London, perilous challenges lay around every corner. And all anyone wants this year is to be home for Christmas.
Critics Review
Praise for Home for Christmas:
n‘Read with a mince pie in hand’ The Sun
nPraise for Annie Groves:
n‘An engrossing story’ My Weekly
n‘A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate story’ Liverpool Daily Post
n‘Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure – a tragic indictment of what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!’ Take a Break
n‘Written from the heart’ My Weekly
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