Publisher's Synopsis
England, 1939: when Alice marries vicar David, it means leaving everything from her old life behind and moving into the draughty vicarage in the remote village of Goswell, Cumbria. Homesick, Alice is determined to make a new life there for herself and her husband. But soon tragedy strikes, and she is devastated when David chooses to sign up to fight in the war. But everything changes when Alice is asked to take in a child evacuee, and she makes a promise to protect this girl, no matter what it costs her. Now: when Jane and her family move to the village of Goswell where her husband grew up, she's afraid she might have made a huge mistake. Their new home - in what had once been the vicarage - feels a million miles from their previous life and Jane struggles. But then she finds a small note, written in the Second World War. By a woman named Alice, whose story has the power to change everything.
