Annie Groves was the creation of the much-loved writer, Penny Halsall, who died in 2011 and is greatly missed by her fans. Penny was born and lived in the north-west of England all of her life and the Annie Groves novels drew on her own family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories when she was a child.
Penny’s legacy of heart-warming and uplifting novels featuring courageous and determined heroines lives on through writers Jenny Shaw and Sheila Riley.
The Mersey Daughter continues the series of novels about the residents of Empire Street in Liverpool during the Second World War.