Trapped in a marriage to the wrong man...Struggling to make ends meet, Mary Anne Randall is offered no help by her drunk and abusive husband. A pawnbroking business run from the wash house at the back of her home is the only way she can hope to keep her three kids fed and clothed. But, as storm clouds gather over Europe, can Mary Anne break free from her loveless marriage for what might be a last chance at love...? It is previously published as Loving Enemies.
Lizzie Lane is the author of over 60 books, including the bestselling Tobacco Girls, Coronation Close and Orchard Cottage Hospital series which is set in the thirties and features a female doctor and a family planning clinic. She was born and bred in Bristol where many of her family worked in the cigarette and cigar factories, has a yachtmaster licence (lived on a sailing yacht for five years) and is a talented interior designer and frequenter of charity shops. Her home is furnished with everything secondhand.