<p><b><H2>THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA SERIES BY MAGGIE MASON, MUCH-LOVED AUTHOR OF <i>THE HALFPENNY GIRLS</i></b><b></H2></b><br><br><H3><b>''In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson''</b> Jean Fullerton on <i>Blackpool Lass</i></H3><br><br><b><H3><i>Troubles lie ahead - will friendship see them through?</i></b><b></H3></b><br><b><br>BLACKPOOL, 1918.</b><br>Martha is seventeen and alone in the world. Of Irish descent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul. Foretelling the future is a gift passed down by her late grandmother and is how she earns her living on Blackpool Promenade. Though she spends hours in a little tent, waiting and hoping for a customer.<br><br>Trisha is Martha''s neighbour and quickly becomes her dearest friend, but she is pregnant and married to a brutal man. And when tragedy strikes, she finds herself alone, her future uncertain.<br><br>Together, on one of the poorest streets in Blackpool, the girls face poverty, as is the