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Mary is a nursing sister at a Lancashire prison camp for the housing and treatment of German POWs. Life at work is difficult but fulfilling; life at home a constant round of arguments – often prompted by her fly-by-night sister, Ellen, the apple of her short-tempered father’s eye. Then Frank turns up at the house one night – a guard at the camp, he’s been watching Mary for weeks – and won’t leave until she agrees to go out with him. But Frank is a difficult man to love and won’t take no for an answer. It isn’t long before the gossips – eager for a victim and on the look-out for fraternisation with the enemy – have Mary in their sights.
‘No ordinary love story… An intelligent, poignant first novel’ Jan Fortune Wood
'Barrow beautifully evokes those raw and edgy datys with this well-paced, gritty love story' Steve Dube, Western Mail