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LIVERPOOL, 1945. As the war draws to a close, ALICE AND TERRY LOMAX are building a new life with their young daughter CATHY. After years away fighting, Terry is a stranger to his daughter and must work hard to win her trust and love. Alice and old friend SADIE work in the haberdashery of Lewis’s department store, where bomb damage scars the walls and rationing is still in force. Yet Lewis’s remains open, a sign of strength in the midst of Liverpool’s post-war ruins. Though memories of those lost in the war are fresh, Alice and Sadie look forward to the future. But then a tragic accident leaves Alice a widow, and the father of Sadie’s child – a man she hoped never to see again – is back in Liverpool… With Alice struggling to start again alone, and Sadie desperate to protect her son, can these two shop gi*ls overcome their troubles and keep their hopes alive – even with all the odds against them?
. DORRIES, DINEY COSTELOE AND KITTY NEALE, YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS PAM HOWES! family after Terry returns from war. It is difficult as his daughter barely knows him. He has been away her whole young life. Terry himself is struggling to get used to life back home. Then when tragedy strikes, Alice has to re-build her life. Luckily she has a strong This book gave me so many different emotions throughout, happiness, sadness and even in parts, anger. Without giving spoilers there is one is growing throughout these books and I am enjoying reading more of his character. What I love about these books is all of the characters Pam Howes was born in Cheshire. She is an ex Interior Designer who began writing seriously in the mid nineties. The idea for her first novel, set in the sixties, was inspired by her time as a te*nager, working in a local record store and hanging around with musicians who frequented the business. That first novel evolved into a series set in the fictional town of Pickford, based on her home town of Stockport. Three Steps to Heaven; 'Til I Kissed You; Always On My Mind; Not Fade Away, and That'll Be The Day, follow the lives and loves through the