Claire Jordan: 2 books

'Her Name was Tara' traces the trials of two young girls who overcome the odds to become friends, but who must each deal with her own terrible past. Intertwinning scenes of their budding happiness and friendship with the saddness of each girl's private life, the text is designed to lace drama and emotion into a captivating tale.

Julia is a kindly London school-teacher whose little world is rattled by a visit to an overgrown graveyard and the discovery that she really should have paid more attention to her own history lessons. The Battle of Britain will be as vital to Julia as it was to her country, two generations before,...