Birmingham Friends - Annie Murray

Anna Craven has grown up captivated by stories of her mother’s childhood in Birmingham and of Kate’s friend, Olivia. Theirs was a magical friendship and Anna has always regretted that with Olivia’s tragic death during the war, she will never meet the woman her mother loved so deeply.

But when Kate dies, she leaves her daughter a final story, one that this time tells the whole truth of her life with Olivia Kemp. And as Anna reads, she is shocked to discover how little she really knows about the mother she felt so close to. With Kate’s words of caution ringing in her head, she goes in search of the one woman, very much alive, who can answer the urgent questions she now has about Kate’s childhood, and even her own.