The Grafton Girls (35 page)

THE GRAFTON GIRLS

Annie Groves lives in the North-West of England and has done so all her life. She is the author of
Ellie Pride, Connie’s Courage
and
Hettie of Hope Street,
a series of novels for which she drew upon her own family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories when she was a child. She has also written a new series of novels,
Goodnight Sweetheart
and
Some Sunny Day
and now
The Grafton Girls,
which is based on Annie’s extensive research of the Italian community in Liverpool during the war as well as wartime recollections from members of her family who come from the city. Annie Groves also writes under the name Penny Jordan and has written over 130 books and sold over 67 million copies.

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ePub Edition June 2008 ISBN-9780007279517

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