Tessa O’Leary – the only daughter in a family of fatherless boys, when her mother dies she’s her brothers’ lifeline to survival. So for Tessa the privations of war are just another battle to be fought for a young woman who was born fighting…..

          Elizabeth Harrison – oppressed by her shopkeeper mother’s snobbish expectations, it seems the coming war offers an escape from her family’s emotional ties – but at what cost?

          THE TIES THAT BIND – the unputdownable story of two young girls in the slumlands of war-wracked Liverpool, bound together by a friendship that surmounts disaster, poverty and heartbreak…..