Alandale is the true story of Mary, a young girl, living in an ordinary street, raised in extraordinary circumstances. Alandale was an unremarkable row of terraced housing in the East Yorkshire city of Hull, which could be the same as any terrace, down any street in the country. But it was more than just bricks and mortar. The author takes us back to a time when the events that took place within those houses and walls, saw people struggling with their own battles to keep some sort of normality throughout what was the nightmare of the Second World War. Hull, an 'East Coast City', suffered some...