Publisher's Synopsis
Dover, 1939. At the heart of Market Square lies Castle's Cafe, run by the formidable Nellie Castle and her six children. Nellie's eldest daughter Marianne has suffered the scorn and gossip of the townsfolk since the scandalous birth of her illegitimate baby ten years ago. But her five siblings are loyal, and have sworn never to allow harm to come to her or her beloved son Donny. And when she meets trumpeter Alfie - a cheerful, kind soldier friend of her brothers' - she warms to him...but is determined not to be made a fool of again. Marianne has never revealed the identity of Donny's father, not even to her own mother. However, her history is catching up with her, and the lives of the Castles suddenly become a lot more complicated. Will the secrets from Marianne's past destroy their future?
