When One Door Closes - Joan Jonker
When One Door Closes - Joan Jonker It's May 1941 and Liverpool is taking a hammering from the German bombers. Despite the gloom, Mary's heart is light as she counts her blessings - she's got her…
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When One Door Closes - Joan Jonker
It's May 1941 and Liverpool is taking a hammering from the German bombers. Despite the gloom, Mary's heart is light as she counts her blessings - she's got her loving mother and Bob, her soldier boyfriend whom she adores and hopes to marry soon. For young Mary Bradshaw and her widowed mother life is full of rationing, blackouts and the wail of the air-raid siren.
She is devastated as her whole world collapses. During the worst air raid Liverpool has ever suffered, fate deals Mary the first of many cruel blows it has in store for her. But Mary doesn't have to face the knocks alone.
Her best friend Eileen has a heart and a sense of humour as big as her eighteen stone body - heaven help anyone who hurts her mate Harry is the boy from up the road who's loved Mary since they were kids and he'll not desert her now. Soon Mary finds that when one door closes, another one really does