Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Rivers, Carol.

Molly's Christmas orphans by Carol Rivers - London Simon & Schuster 2017. - 406 pages 24 cm - Molly Swift 1 . - Molly Swift 1 .

Molly Swift, at 27, has already suffered the tragic loss of her two-year-old daughter Emily, to the flu outbreak of 1935. Now she waits for news of her shopkeeper husband Ted, who volunteered at the outbreak of war, for the British Expeditionary Forces. Molly is intent on running the general store with the help of her retired father, Bill Keen and ex-proprietor of the business. But after the building is hit during a bombing raid and Bill is severly injured, Molly faces difficult times. Alone in the hospital corridor as Bill is treated, Molly tries to keep positive. But the Blitz is well underway and she is forced to take shelter in the hospital's basement. It's here, as the bombs fall around docklands, that Molly meets Andy Miller and his two young children, Evie and Mark. An unlikely friendship begins as Molly offers the homeless group safe lodgings for the following night, and soon their lives are entwined, bringing unexpected joy and heartache for them all.

ISBN: 1471154874 9781471154874 1471154882 9781471154881

Subjects--Meeting Names:
World War (1914-1918)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Families--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--England--London--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
London (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Christmas fiction.
Historical fiction.
Christmas fiction.