Books in series
#1
Lights Out Liverpool
1995
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humor. The war touches each of them in a different for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means neverending worry when her twin boys are called up and sent to France, and Sheila Reilly's husband, Cal, faces the terror of U-Boat attack. And Jessica Fleming, down on her luck, is forced to return to the street she'd hoped never to see again.
#2
Put Out the Fires
1996
The second novel in bestseller Maureen Lee's outstanding Liverpool sequence about family life during the Second World War
September 1940 - the cruellest year of war for Britain's civilians as the Luftwaffe mercilessly blitz their cities. In Pearl Street, near Liverpool's docks, families struggle to cope the best they can.
A nasty surprise for ever-cheerful dressmaker Brenda Mahon, and flighty Sean's love for little Alice, show how life goes on even when it appears to be falling apart. Yet while Eileen Costello tries to hide her ruined hopes of happiness with Nick, and do her best by the husband she hoped had gone for ever, Ruth Singerman returns, having escaped from Austria. Even the joy of seeing her father again cannot make up for the bitter loss of her children.
#3
Through the Storm
1998
The third novel in bestseller Maureen Lee's outstanding Liverpool sequence about family life during World War II
Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most of the inhabitants have lost friends and family. While sisters Eileen and Sheila share the anxious burden of absent husbands, the conflict for others brings excitement and freedom.
Kitty Quigley, stuck at home for years with an invalid father, is forced to register for war work and is delighted to become an auxiliary nurse. And Jessica Fleming, struggling to earn a living, finds herself and friend Rita increasingly drawn to the glamour and excitement of the Yanks.
Look out for more in the bestselling Pearl Street
Book 1 - Lights Out Liverpool
Book 2 - Put Out the Fires
Book 3 - Through the Storm
Author
Maureen Lee
Author · 28 books
Maureen Lee was born in Bootle, England, UK, near Liverpool during the World War II. She attended Commercial College and became a shorthand typist. She married Richard, and they had three sons, now adults. The last years the marriage lives in Colchester, Essex. During years, she published over one hundred and fifty short-stories, before published her first novel Lila in 1983. She continued published dramatic historical sagas mainly setting in Liverpool since 1994. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
