Polly's Angel | A Long and Lonely Road by Katie Flynn

Polly's Angel | A Long and Lonely Road

by Katie Flynn

Arrow Books, 2007, ISBN 9780099522768, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some creasing to front cover, no inscriptions (see photographs)

"Polly's Angel:
It is 1936 and Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the countryside they love into central Liverpool.  Money is desperately short and Polly is easily led astry by the handsome but idle Sunny Anderson.

A Long And Lonely Road:
Liverpool, Christmas 1938, Rose McAllister is waiting for her husband to come home.  He is a seaman, often drunk and violent, but Rose does her best to cope and sees that her daughters suffer as little as possible.  When war is declared Rose has a good job but agrees the children must be evacuated.  Daisy and Petal are happy at first, but circumstances change and they are put in the care of a woman who hates all scousers and taunts them with the destruction of their city.  They run away, arriving home on the worst night of the May Blitz ... "