Publisher's Synopsis
Durham:1920s. Ella's happy childhood in Swan Island is abruptly ended when her father dies, leaving the family bankrupt. Ella and her mother must go and live with her grandmother, who runs the Silver Street Café, but Ella vows to return to her childhood home one day. After a first, unhappy marriage, she settles into steady domesticity with David Black, but there had been another doomed romance during the early years of the Second World War, and Ella has never forgotten Harry. It has been years since she last saw him, but old memories are stirred when he comes back into her life...
