My fascination with stories about people living during World War II continues and it's normally narrowed down to people living in continental Europe, usually France and Great Britain.
This time, Maureen Lee writes about the lives of the people living in Liverpool during the war in this aptly titled book "The Seven Streets of Liverpool" - Liverpudlians living with all the bombings and the food rations and having their men go off to war and their women working as nurses, secretaries and auxiliary officers.
It's a different world filled with fear of the unknown, never knowing when the war will end and having to live with the spectre of death just round the corner.
There are so many characters in the book it's so easy to get lost as to who's who so you'd have to have this idea that this is one community of families she is talking about so better to have that in mind as you read it.
Women play a very central role in most of her novels and here - there's a sorority of sisters helping each other - wives, widows, single mothers, young ingenues - all trying their best to keep their families together while their men are away.
Liverpool as well Ireland are two places I would want to visit soon because of all these fiction novels that I've read that have used them as settings for their stories.
Definitely something to look forward to!
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