Publisher's Synopsis
Spring 1935. Two girls meet by chance on Hampstead Heath. To an outsider, they could not appear more different. Verity is well-mannered and smartly dressed, living with her parents in a beautiful house close to the heath. Ruby is dishevelled and grubby, used to a life of squalor where she is forced to steal to survive. Yet there's an instant affinity and when their fortunes are shockingly reversed, it is the strength of their friendship that keeps them together. Until the day Verity does the one thing that will break Ruby's heart. In a country torn apart by fighting, will they find a way back to each other?
