Book Description
A compelling story of deep emotion and tangled family relationships that hide a dreadful secret. Pretty Alice Lacey couldnt be more different from her sister-in-law, bitter, ambitious Cora. Alice is married to John, Cora to his hapless younger brother, Billie. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940. But Coras jealousy and resentment lead her to swap her puny baby for Alices beautiful son. Alice, her marriage in tatters because the badly burned John rejects her, borrows money from Cora in order to purchase the lease of the tiny hairdresser where she works. Alice is talented; the business thrives and a chain of salons becomes Laceys of Liverpool. Relationships between the cousins Cormac and Maurice, their parents, Alices three girls and their eventual husbands and children enrich this engrossing saga and give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last sixty years of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
Maureen Lee was born in Bootle and now lives in Colchester, Essex. She has had numerous short stories published and a play professionally staged. She now writes full time. In 1999 she won the RNA Book of the Year award for DANCING IN THE DARK.
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