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Mary

This series delves into the lives and relationships of women set against the backdrop of wartime England. At its heart is a resilient protagonist whose personal life becomes entangled with complex romantic interests and dangerous secrets. The narratives explore female strength in the face of adversity, societal pressures, and difficult personal choices.

Living In The Shadows
Changing Patterns
Pattern Of Shadows

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  1. 1

    Pattern Of Shadows

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.1(116)Add rating

    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 walk out with him. Frank Shuttleworth is a difficult man to love and it's not long before Mary gives him his marching orders. But Shuttleworth won't take no for an answer and the gossips are eager for their next victim, and for the slightest hint of fraternization with the enemy. Suddently, not only Mary's happiness but her very life is threatened by the most dangerous of wartime secrets.

    Pattern Of Shadows
  2. 2

    Changing Patterns

    • 310 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
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    "May 1950, Britain is struggling with the hardships of rationing and the aftermath of the Second World War. Peter Schormann, a German ex-prisoner of war, has left his home country to be with Mary Howarth, matron of a small hospital in Wales. The two met when Mary was a nurse at the POW camp hospital. They intend to marry, but the memory of Frank Shuttleworth, an ex-boyfriend of Mary's, continues to haunt them and there are many obstacles in the way of their happiness, not the least of which is Mary's troubled family. When tragedy strikes, Mary hopes it will unite her siblings, but it is only when a dhild disappears that the whole family pulls together to save one of their own from a common enemy"--back cover.

    Changing Patterns
  3. 3

    Living In The Shadows

    • 310 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    In this the final title in Judith Barrow's WWII trilogy chronicling the lives of civilians' humdrum existence in an ordinary welsh village, Victoria finds herself attracted to the lifestyle and vices of the local gang of hippies.

    Living In The Shadows