The September Girls By Maureen Lee

In Liverpool on a stormy September night in 1920 two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same house. Enemies at first they later become friends when separate troubles unite them. But friendship between their daughters Cara and Sybil is a different matter. Nineteen years later at the beginning of the Second World War Cara and Sybil find themselves thrown together when they enlist and are both stationed in Malta. It is a time of live-changing repercussions for them both while back home in Liverpool the bombs rain down on a defiant city. The September Girls is a compelling story of two families their loves secrets and betrayals and a powerful evocation of war-time Liverpool.