Birmingham Rose Book

For Rose Lucas a spirited intelligent girl born into a large family in the slums of pre-War Birmingham life is limited and hard. But through her friendship with Diana daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley she learns to aspire to a different and better existence and vows never to become a child-bearing drudge like her mother. ; ; However life seldom follows the way of dreams. After a childhood marked by tragedy she eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. From Italy to where she has travelled with the ATS during the Second World War she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage her hopes and illusions shattered. ; ; Finally after further struggles she leaves the beloved city of her childhood as it rises from the ashes of its bombed devastation. For the powerful spirit of Rose will not be defeated. ; ; The vivid and lyrical first novel by an author whose passion shines through her moving and heart-warming saga.