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The Blackbird

by Claire Allen - £12.99  Henningham Family Press (2020)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781999797409 | ISBN 10: 199979740x

It is 1941. Hope’s father, Jenner, builds Liverpool Cathedral while the Luftwaffe’s bombs fall.
It is 2014, and Hope cares for her husband Robert as Alzheimer’s destroys his personality.
 
Hope’s husband Robert is a retired civic sculptor. As Alzheimer’s unravels his mind, a secret he has kept for her threatens to emerge, breaking the fragile peace she has made with her parents’ memory: the truth of what happened to her mother during the Liverpool Blitz.
 
Hope brings in Louise to be home-carer. A young mother, the last resident of the Blackbird Estate, harassed by her ex-partner. But now they are together, can they find a way the past can’t hurt them?
 
Allen tells the overlooked story of the Liverpool Blitz, but resists its glorification with the sights, sounds and smells that surround the desperate citizens.

(Price & availability last checked: August 2020)

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