Annotation
"London, 1935: A chance meeting on a park bench on the eve of World War II sets in motion a love affair that reverberates through three generations. Matt and Lorna are deeply, defiantly, in love; they marry, and Lorna is pregnant when Matt is called for duty. But the war means Matt's death in action; it cuts short his artist's career and changes the course of Lorna's life. The war means that Lorna will marry again, and that Molly, their daughter, will grow up in a blasted landscape of bomb-sites and boarded windows, of households reconfigured by loss. But a chance look at a forgotten newspaper on the London tube leads Molly into her first job - and into the life of James Portland, a wealthy man she cannot love; and the postwar period gives way to a new era. Thirty years later, Ruth, Molly's own daughter, leaves her marriage for a journey that takes her back to 1941, to a new resolution of her own history and that of her family."--BOOK JACKET.
Characters
| Name | Bradley, Lorna |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Remarried |
| Mother | |
| Name | Molly |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Assistant |
| Trait | Mother |
| Name | Ruth |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Married |
| Mother | |
| Genre | Fiction Domestic Love story Saga --Family Historical |
| Topics | Women's lives Marriage Husbands and wives World War II Widows Grief Loss Death of a spouse Remarriage Mothers and daughters Death and dying Love affairs Family histories Ancestors Journeys Self-discovery Identity Life changes Life choices |
| Setting | London, England |