Publisher's Synopsis
Many of the people who grew up into the Second World War found themselves working in ministries, permanent or temporary: many were the tales of their horrifying or ridiculous experiences. This is a random sample of the mixture of people who carried the weight of this important, though often 'back-room' work, suffering the frustrations and privations, the romances, tragedies and comedies common to all. It is the story of Laura, who fell in love with everybody: and her bosom friend, the cool amused Prudence who wisely fell in love with nobody. Until the mysterious Gavin Kitto appeared and her inviolable heart was ready to be lost. Laura's heart had been given some years before, in her college days, which is why she was bouncing around now like a ball waiting to be caught. The story reveals how the war, cruelly yet effectively, unloosed the knot for Laura, while proving her friend loyal and stalwart to the last, showing an unselfish goodness rare enough in the grabbing world of the twentieth century.
