A Mother's Hope

by KatieFlynn (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  2009

  $3.29

  Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying, a basket on one arm. As the sirens begin and the bombs crash down, she is filled with panic and, with a heavy heart, abandons her burden in a sheltered doorway, meaning to return later. Even as she disappears in the resulting chaos, the bundle in the basket begins to wail. Years later, two young unfortunates meet on a miserable November day. Martin has been desperately trying to hitch a lift along the lonely windswept road and when he sees a weeping girl in front of him, he hurries to catch her up. Rose and Martin become unlikely companions until they go their separate ways, not expecting to meet again. However, fate decrees otherwise.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2009

  $4.54

  It is a dreadful November day; rain and sleet batter young Martin while he tries to hitch a lift to Liverpool. The coast road is deserted, and he shrinks further into his rain-soaked duffle coat. He hears a bus approaching but has no money, so when it stops to eject a weeping girl, then speeds away, he hurries to catch her up. Companions in misfortune, Martin and Rose slog on together. Each has a secret which neither wishes to part with and when they go their separate ways, they don't expect to meet again. But fate decrees otherwise.