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Informationen zum Autor Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John's College, Oxford. Her first Birmingham novel, Birmingham Rose , hit The Sunday Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many other successful novels, including War Babies and Girls in Tin Hats and the bestselling novels Chocolate Girls, Sisters of Gold and Black Country Orphan . Annie has four children, all Birmingham born and she lives near Oxford. Klappentext Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But more heartache is to come when her mother marries Norman Griffin, the local undertaker, in an attempt to better herself and her family. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems - as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover. Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother for support, the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret. And for Sal it is too much to bear . . . The chance of a new life opens up for Maryann when she befriends Joel Bartholomew. Aboard his narrowboat, the Esther Jane, she finds herself falling in love with life on the canal as she is swept away from Birmingham and all her worries. That is, until Joel's feelings for Maryann begin to change, awakening all the old nightmares that she had thought were long buried . . . An absorbing tale of adventure and true love from the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls Zusammenfassung An absorbing tale of adventure and true love from the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls
