About the book

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will not be disappointed by this magically romantic and dynamic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "Will satisfy all Bingham's fans" - SUNDAY TIMES "Great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist" - CHOICE "Her imagination is thoroughly original" - DAILY MAIL "This is a novel so heartbreaking........so touching it kept me glued to the pages just anticipating the outcome for these wonderful characters." -- ***** Reader review "A wonderful read and very hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************** A TOUCHING STORY OF FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.... World War Two: Londoners Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns their lives into something very near to Heaven: the archetypal idyllic countryside childhood. But when the two sisters learn they cannot adopt all three of them, it is Bobbie who is sent away to live with the Dingwalls in very different circumstances. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war, and Miranda, now a beautiful young model, falls in love with grown-up Ted Mowbray, but he can only think of her as a sister. In turn, he loves Bobbie, yet she has already met her beloved Julian, getting to know him during a summer by the sea in Sussex. How many hearts are destined to be broken and can they find their way to a happy and fulfilled future?