Book description
It is 1940 and war is raging in Europe. Coventry is a prime target for Jerry’s bombing raids, but Lizza King refuses to be evacuated, for all she’s pregnant and the mother of a young child. She loves the city, and she wants to be with her husband Roland, bound together as they are by ties of love and shared loss. But the war is changing Roland: no longer the warm, open man Lizza first knew, he’s now distracted and exhausted, content only in the buzz and bustle of the factory floor.
On the terrible November night when Coventry loses its cathedral Lizza is comforted in her grief at the death of her daughter not by Roland but by Krystof, the Polish refugee, who understands only too well what Lizza feels. Her home in ruins, her marriage crumbling and with the two newly motherless children of a neighbour suddenly in her care, Lizza at last heads home to the land of her possession, South Durham, where only stray bombs fall…
