Three strangers from completely different backgrounds come together in wartime London enduring
one of the worst conflicts the world has ever known . . . It is 1944 and London is suffering
some of the darkest days of wartime. The Blitz has devastated families and livelihoods and
people continually worry for the safety of their families. Teenagers Charlie Matters and Molly
Wakefield come from very different backgrounds. Charlie has lost both of his parents and now
he's in Bethnal Green living with his beloved grandmother. He lives life close to the edge and
the day when he falls off is never far away. Molly returns to her smart Chelsea home after
five years in Norfolk as an evacuee to find that she may as well be an orphan and her father
has secrets of his own. There's also something very intriguing about Covent Garden book shop
owner Ignatius Oliver who also has secrets to hide when he befriends Molly and Charlie. But
wartime and loss are great levelers and Charlie Molly and Ignatius form a great friendship and
gain inspiration from each other to carry on at a time when life does not seem to hold the
future they'd wished for.
