Girl Penny Lane Katie Flynn

Young Kitty Drinkwater lives in Paradise Court, just off Burlington Street. Life is tough in Liverpool in the years after the First World War and Kitty is always hungry and dressed in rags. As the oldest child, she is the scapegoat for her feckless, drunken mother. She dreams of a better life…Lilac Larkin’s prospects, by contrast, are very different; she is beautiful, self-possessed young woman, and even when her pleasant occupation as a lady’s maid comes to an end and she starts work in a bag factory, she is sure that her life will be full of promise and excitement…So when the two girls meet by probability in a millinery shop, neither may have any idea what changes in their lives the encounter will fetch nor how queerly fate will work to fetch them together once more.