An orphan's war
Liverpool, 1942. Maxine is haunted by the ghosts of a shameful past. She is unable to get close to her fellow staff at the Dr Barnado's Orphanage where she works as a nurse, for fear they might uncover her secret. So Maxine finds a friend in an unexpected place: Peter, a six-year-old orphan with a secret of his own. Meanwhile, during Maxine's visits to her family home, she encounters two men from her past, with very different outcomes. Crofton is...
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