Anne Bennett: WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS - Softcover

Bennett, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007139810 ISBN 13: 9780007139811

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

Family saga set in Birmingham in the years following World War Two

Hannah Delaney is a young woman with a secret. It is not one that she can share with her large family still back home in Ireland, and especially not with her dying sister. Hannah’s moved to England to build a better life, and has met and fallen in love with a young soldier. They intend to marry on his next leave, but then comes D Day, and he doesn’t return. Hannah is left alone and pregnant.

Surrendering her baby to the nuns is the only option, and Hannah grimly picks up the pieces and goes to work in a Birmingham guesthouse. Common sense tells her to agree to marry sensible Arthur Bradley, but he too has a secret. And secrets will not remain hidden for ever...

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Review:

‘The beauty of Anne’s books is that they are about normal people and are sewn through with the human emotions which affect us all.’ Birmingham Post

From the Back Cover:

Hannah Delaney is a young woman with a secret. It is not one that she can share with her large family still back home in Ireland, and especially not with her dying sister. Hannah’s moved to England to build a better life, and has met and fallen in love with a young soldier. They intend to marry on his next leave, but then comes D Day, and he doesn’t return. Hannah is left alone and pregnant.

Surrendering her baby to the nuns is the only option, and Hannah grimly picks up the pieces and goes to work in a Birmingham guesthouse. Common sense tells her to agree to marry sensible Arthur Bradley, but he too has a secret. And secrets will not remain hidden for ever...

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007139810
• ISBN 13: 9780007139811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546