Birmingham Rose Murray Annie
Birmingham Rose Murray Annie A heartfelt Birmingham saga, Birmingham Rose is Annie Murray's debut novel and was a Sunday Times bestseller. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from…
Specifikacia Birmingham Rose Murray Annie
Birmingham Rose Murray Annie
A heartfelt Birmingham saga, Birmingham Rose is Annie Murray's debut novel and was a Sunday Times bestseller. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley, gives her hope. Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham.
After a childhood marked by tragedy, Rose eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. She learns to aspire to a different kind of existence, vowing never to become a child-bearing drudge like her mother.Life, however, never follows the way of dreams. From Italy, where she has travelled during the Second World War, she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage, her hopes and illusions shattered.
But Rose will not be defeated and she, too, is determined to rise once again above the devastation of her life . .