Timeless

In Timeless Joan Hallam relates a personal journey deep into her family's history.  Starting in the 1800s, she tells the story of Ellen Elizabeth Brockway her Grandmother. Ellen is a young woman tragically widowed in the First World War but is determined to raise a family as a single parent through hard times in a working-class household.   As the story moves from Portsmouth to Manchester, the author details the extraordinary lives of generations of her family through the good and the bad times.  Set within a background of social upheaval: two world wars and the women's fight for the vote, the author highlights her family members different hopes, dreams and destinies. And throughout the changing decades the one great constant throughout - love.  Timeless is a book all will relate to and return to many times.