Annie Murray, author
All the Days of Our Lives
Third in the trilogy that begins with A Hopscotch Summer
It is 1946: the War is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures for Katie, Em and Molly…
Completing the trilogy which begins with A Hopscotch Summer and Soldier Girl, All the Days of Our Lives is the story of three girls who first met in a Birmingham classroom in the 1930s, each facing life with all its joys, sorrows and surprises.
Katie O’Neill’s - childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left outcast and alone with her young son. Forced to throw herself on the kindness of people other than family, she begins to learn to trust and find an unexpected, joyful life opening up for her.
Em Brown – has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her husband Norm to return and meet the son he has never seen. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems.
Molly Fox – after a sad and brutal childhood, found a place to belong, during the war, in the women’s army, the ATS. Now, in 1946, the women are no longer wanted and Molly finds peacetime a bleak, difficult challenge. Finding work in guesthouses and holiday camps, she keeps running from herself, in search of a place she can call home…