April Grove and Burracombe characters are linked in this touching new Lilian Harry novel. It is December 1952. A wedding is being planned in April Grove, Portsmouth, and Jess and Frank Budd want to b
It is 1940, and the neighbors in April Grove are close-knit, patriotic, and proud?but the onset of the Blitz tests their loyalties and courage as never before. Betty Chapman meets a devastatingly attr
Dan Hodges is devastated when his wife Nora dies during the early days of the war. Working long hours in a Portsmouth shipyard, how is he to look after his two sons, Gordon and Sammy? Gordon is sent
Ruth, Lizzie, and Heather each have their own reasons for greeting the end of the war with mixed feelings. For Ruth, it means she must face the possibility of losing Sammy, the evacuee boy she has co
