Determined to find her, Emma is drawn away from the countryside to the austere city life of post-war Liverpool. Despite the different lives the women lead, they discover common ground and get along well.
And when trouble inevitably comes, Emma rises to the challenge and in doing so finds love, taking her life in a whole new direction; meanwhile, Betty has to overcome devastation before her dream can come true.
June Francis’s maiden name was Nelson, and although she can’t lay claim to the famous Lord Admiral, she can boast of at least six mariners in her ancestry who came from far and wide. June’s mother worked in service and her tales of the old days have inspired several of June’s thirty published novels.