title: Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor
author:  Christopher Sykes 
description: Physical description; 543 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subject; Astor, Nancy 1879-1964.
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  > > Katie Flynn
  
  > ARROW (2006)
  
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  > Rating: ★★★★★
  
  > Tags: Contemporary Fiction Sagas
  
  > Contemporary Fiction Sagasttt
  
  Jess and Nancy are nurses in France during the Great War. They have much in
  common for both have lost their lovers in the trenches, so when the war is
  over and they return to Liverpool, their future seems bleak.
  
  Very soon, however, their paths diverge. Nancy marries an Australian stockman
  and goes to live in the Outback, while Jess marries a Liverpudlian. Their
  lives couldn't be more different.
  
  When the Second World War is declared, Nancy's son Pete joins the Royal Air
  Force and comes to England, promising his mother that he will visit her old
  friend. In the thick of the May blitz, with half of Liverpool demolished and
  thousands dead, Pete arrives in the city to find Jess's home destroyed and her
  daughter, Debbie, missing. Pete decides that whatever the cost, he must find
  her ...
  
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