Publisher's Synopsis
Nell and Sylvie grow up quickly during the early days of rationing, blackouts, and the arrival of RAF planes in the skies. Sylvie is desperately worried for her parents in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Nell, meanwhile, witnesses the crumbling of her parents' marriage. When the girls fall in love with the same man, the brave RAF officer Alex Hammond, he is spared having to choose between them as the war changes the course of their lives. For Nell, the only place she can ever find solace is inside the September Garden, it is the only place she feels safe, and where she decides to hide her most dreadful secret...
