Publisher's Synopsis
June 1940, and newly qualified teacher Phyllis Saunders is evacuated with her school to Dorset. Here she encounters prejudice and suspicion, but she is determined to make the best of life for herself and the children in her care. All the while, her fiance, submariner Sammy, is facing danger out at sea. On a visit to London, Phyllis gets caught up in the Blitz, but manages to escape. Shaken but alive, she returns to the relative peace of the countryside. But soon she is nursing a secret she can tell no one. Until she learns that Sammy's submarine has been sunk, and is forced to make a decision she hopes she will never regret...
