Maureen Lee

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven, or so they both believed....

Beginning in 1950s Liverpool, VIOLET'S CHILDREN is a warm and nostalgicstory of a young woman who must adopt her sister's children after tragedy strikes...

For Josie Flynn, the war was just the start of a journey that began in heartbreak when she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle....

Pearl Street, Liverpool, Christmas 1942. Despite the drama and tragedy of the War, the street’s spirit and friendship in adversity binds them together. Since her husband was injured, Eileen has worried about the growing distance between them. Lena Newton longs for a baby but with her husband...

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains....

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed....

Liverpool, 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children....

It's 1925 and Patricia, Tara and Aideen couldn't be more excited to be starting a new life in Liverpool. Yet it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems, for the girls are hastily swept onto a huge ocean liner heading to New York. When their father vanishes mid-way across the Atlantic, the...

As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour.

At the age of 19, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary....

As the summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last summer together. That was until they fall under the spell of charismatic newcomer, Jack Hannay. But as the summer draws to a close, Daisy refuses to accept that it is over. She insists on one last visit...

After the death of their mother, Mollie and Annemarie decide to escape from their tiny Irish village and head to Liverpool to board a ship to New York....

Queenie is only 14 and has been deserted by her mother....

It is the heady 60s in Liverpool, and the Flowers, the Baileys, and the McDowds are three very different families bound together by music....

At 14, Ruby is beautiful, intelligent and wilful - and delighted to be chosen by the wealthy Emily Dangerfield, who lives in a grand house near Liverpool, as a companion....

Pretty Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law; bitter, ambitious Cora. Alice is happily married to John Lacey, Cora to his hapless younger brother, Billy....

Pretty Amy Curran was just 18 years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven - or so they both believed. But when Britain declared war on Germany, Barney hastily volunteered to fight, and the couple...

Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children....

The newcomers who move in around her bring with them their own dramas....

Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a brand new story by Maureen Lee, written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion. On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: it was Amy's 18th birthday; her sister...