Orphans of the storm
Katie Flynn2005

jess and Nancy are nurses in France during the great war. they have much in common for both have lost their lovers in the trenches. and when the war is over and they return to liverpool, their bfuture seems bleak.
very soon, however, their paths diberge. Nancy marries an australian stockman and goes to live in the outback, while jess marries a liverpudlian. their lives couldn't be more diferrent.
when the second world war is declared, Nancy's son pete joins the royal air force and comes to england. promising his mother that he will visit her old friend. in the thick of the may blitz, with half of liverpool demolished and thousands dead, pete arrives in the city to find jess's home destroyed and her daughter debbie missing. pete decides that whatever the cost he must find her...
from the rigours of the autralian outback to war-ravaged liverpool, debbie and pete are drawn together...and torn apart...