Campion Family series by Annie Groves (Books 01-5)
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Overview: Annie Groves has always lived in the North-West of England. She is the author of Ellie Pride, Connie’s Courage and Hettie of Hope Street, a series of novels for which she drew on her own family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories as a child. Her most recent novels, including Goodnight Sweetheart, Some Sunny Day, The Grafton Girls, As Time Goes By and Across the Mersey, are based on wartime recollections from members of her family who come from the citiy of Liverpool. Annie Groves also writes under the name Penny Jordan, an internationally bestselling author of over 170 novels with sales of over 84 million copies.
Genre: Historical Fiction | WWII
#01 – Across the Mersey: Jean and Vi are twins but couldn’t be more different. Jean’s proud of her honest, hardworking husband and their children, but there’s never a penny to spare. Vi’s equally proud of her husband’s new role as a local councillor and their elegant new house, and has raised her children to expect the best. As war breaks out, agonising decisions must be faced. Should the oldest children enlist? Should the youngest be evacuated? All the traditional certainties are overturned. Then the twins’ own younger sister, singer Francine, returns home unexpectedly and stirs up the past, even in the midst of present danger. This is a tremendous saga of fighting spirit and family closeness, and the belief that even though today is full of destruction and pain, there is hope for a better tomorrow.
#02 – Daughters of Liverpool: Katie’s full of trepidation as she arrives in Liverpool. It’s her first posting and her work will be so secret that she can’t even speak about it to the family she’s billeted with. She makes it clear that she’s here to do her bit for the war effort, not to flirt with the many servicemen based at the nearby barracks. Which is just fine with Luke, son of the household and battle-scarred veteran of Dunkirk. He’s had his heart broken already by a flighty nurse. His mother can’t help worry about him – but she’s got more than enough on her plate with her youngest children, the teenage twins, who don’t see why a war should stop them having fun and achieving their ambition to go on the stage. Then the bombs begin to rain in Liverpool in earnest and everyone, from oldest to youngest, must realise what matters most in life.
#03 – The Heart of the Family: WWII: Liverpool is under bombardment as never before – but the Campion family refuses to give in. The Campions have always stuck together through danger and sorrow, but even they begin to wonder if it’s time to take their youngest, the twins, to safety away from the bombing raids. The twins have other worries on their minds; having been inseparable, they now realise that they each have different ambitions – and Lou isn’t sure she’ll find what she wants close to home. Meanwhile, cousin Bella is managing a creche and discovers that life isn’t all about pleasure. She’s the last person her family would expect to help anyone; but when a figure from the past turns up on the doorstep, Bella’s unexpected reserves of compassion are revealed. From hardship and heartbreak, surviving the toughest of times, the Campions know they can make it through if they have one another.
#04 – Where the Heart Is: Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs, against the wishes of her parents and twin sister Sasha. Lou’s always been a rebel, but now finds that if she wants to succeed she’ll have to follow extremely strict rules. Can she do this or will it all end in deep disgrace? Tragedy haunts the other members of the family, as Katie’s plans for the future are dashed, Fran’s young husband is close to death and Bella’s impossible passion has to remain a close secret. Yet even in the darkest hour there is hope. The Campions find that they have a hero in their midst and while their city is crumbling, their pride is intact.
#05 – When the Lights Go On Again: Autumn, 1944: the Allies are invading Italy. At home in Britain, along with everyone else, the Campion family are doing their part—working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight. Lou, separated from her twin Sasha, is spreading her wings quite literally in her new role as a member of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying new planes to Royal Air Force bases. She is soon confronted with a man from her past—Kieron Mallory. Newly engaged to Bobby, Sasha is filled with increasing fear, both for Bobby and about the terror that engulfs her whenever she thinks about being trapped in the bomb shaft that nearly took her life. Emily, newly widowed, loves living in Whitchurch with Tommy—her adopted son, her pride and joy. But a chance sighting of Tommy turns Emily’s world upside down and reawakens for Fran all the pain of her past. Back in London, Katie hopes that she is finally over Luke, until a surprise letter from him arrives. But can they ever build a friendship on the ashes of their love?
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