Book description
There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the
night of the raid on Coventry. Mum and Dad, Florrie and little May....
Jack was missing. He was one of those who had not come back from
Dunkirk. And May had to promise to keep a terrible secret, a promise
which affected the lives of all the survivors, until May herself was
the only one left.
Seventy years later Daisy and Marcus, sixth formers in a
Gloucestershire School, are given an A Level project on the bombing of
Coventry in 1940. They go to talk to May, now living in sheltered
accommodation nearby;a friendship is forged which bridges the gap
between them. The two youngsters have their own problems, but as their
lives unfold they become involved in the strange history of May's
missing brother and of the promise, made all those years ago, which
still has its repercussions today.
Susan Sallis is the author of over twenty bestelling novels, many of
them set in the West Country. She was born in Gloucestershire and now
lives in Somerset with her family.
