# While We're Apart

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- Book: [While We're Apart](https://www.bookquiver.com/tamara-mckinley/while-were-apart) ([While We're Apart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tamara-mckinley/while-were-apart.md))
- Authors: [Tamara McKinley](https://www.bookquiver.com/tamara-mckinley)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-532-9
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2015-01-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

THE EIGHTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN When war reveals a family secret, it can only bring trouble . . . It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her eighteenth birthday and said goodbye to her childhood sweetheart Jack, when she learns that her house has taken a direct hit during a tip and run raid. With both her parents dead and her home destroyed, a distraught Mary moves in with Jack’s parents. But her father's trunk is still intact amid the ruins, and Mary discovers a shocking secret amongst his diaries. Mary travels to Cliffehaven on the south coast in search of answers. Here she is billeted with Peggy Reilly’s fearsome sister, Doris. When warm-hearted Peggy befriends Mary, she discovers the young woman’s secret. But she begins to regret getting involved, for there can only be trouble ahead . . . A fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).