Elsie's Wartime Wish av Carol MacLean

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<h5>While WW2 rages, Elsie must battle for her family</h5><p>Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow with her mother and little sister, Jessie, isn¿t easy ¿ not least because her mother spends most days in a drunken stupor.</p><p>But life gets harder still when their mother dies suddenly, leaving Jessie and Elsie broken-hearted. When Elsie¿s meagre wages won¿t stretch to supporting them, they¿re thrown out of their home. The future looks bleak, until their mother¿s estranged family deigns to take them in. </p><p>But their relief is short-lived as it becomes clear the Mearns family have taken in the orphan sisters only for appearances, treating them cruelly behind closed doors. </p><p>When Elsie discovers the devastating secret her mother kept from them, it seems that they may have a lifeline ¿ until that dream too, is cruelly dashed. </p><p>Now, more than ever, the sisters only have each other. But can Elsie and Jessie find som