Publisher's Synopsis
The final part of the Clydesiders trilogy Summer, 1939. The hard-working Gourlays in their modest tenement and the prosperous Cartwrights in their luxurious West End home are about to face the consequences of a shattering revelation. As the secrets and lies of the past are uncovered, these two very different families discover that they have more in common than any of them ever suspected. But these traumas are soon overshadowed by the tragedy of war. Like thousands of others, the Gourlays and the Cartwrights experienced the full horror of the First World War. Now they must face that horror again as the men go to fight and the rest play their part on the Home Front.
