
On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, he started to write this novel.


From an author who lived through - and served in - the conflict, a brilliant novel set in an English village at a turning point of the Second World War.
'A wonderful read, packed with incident, colour and detail' Telegraph