Publisher's Synopsis
"Tells a story of pressure, loyalty, escape and love." - BOOKLIST For over twenty years Hannah and her brother, Harry, have sought a future and an escape from their tyrannical Victorian father - Hannah through a career as a teacher and campaigner for women's rights, Harry in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa. Then, in 1914, the outbreak of war brings new pressures. Harry, a lifelong pacifist, has to come to terms with the call to arms, Hannah to deal with the knowledge that the man she loves may never return...
