Book description
When Josie is evacuated to her aunt and uncle's farm in Essex, she
meets and falls in love with seventeen year old Jumbo, a
happy-go-lucky optimistic young man who doesn't let his disability
interrupt a life full of fun. Their relationship takes off, despite
the difficulties of the war, which interrupts their idyll from time to
time with stories of tragedy and death.
But when Josie meets Chris, Jumbo's heroic fighter pilot brother,
she experiences feelings that are out of control and dangerous; is
this what real love feels like? She is torn between the two young men
- one who is steady and loving, the other wayward and challenging. Yet
it may not be her choice to make, as the German attack on England
becomes more and more dangerous...
Set against the backdrop of the second world war, where people diced
with life and death every day, this is a wonderfully moving story of
love, passion and tragedy.
THERE ARE VERY FEW BORN STORY-TELLERS. K. M. PEYTON IS ONE OF
THEM' The Times
Kathleen M Peyton is a top-selling author of more than thirty
novels, the best-known of which is FLAMBARDS which, with its sequels,
was made into a TV serial. She lives in Essex with her husband.
