Jean and Vi are twins but they couldn't be any more different. Vi is a married with two spoiled children and lives in Wallasey. Jean lives in Liverpool with her family. When war breaks out cousins Luke and Charlie enlist and Jean's daughter Grace decides to train for a nurse and Vi's daughter Bella decides that she has to get married Alan,a man who Bella believes can raise her social status. On one night Grace meet Seb Atkins, Alan cousin. A romance blooms under the threat of war, but in wartime not everyone will survive.
"Across the Mersey" is the first book in a great series. Ms. Grove give the reader great characters and a great storyline. Any fan of wartime novels will love book Annie Groves books.