Publisher's Synopsis
Liverpool, early twentieth century: The first time Grace Tooley meets Rupert Bradley she is the tomboyish only girl in a happy, noisy family of six boys. He comes back into her life when her eldest brother's sudden death has forced her to take on burdens beyond her years. Grace gives her heart and soul to her brother's kind, handsome, rich friend, even though he sees her as a mere girl and goes on to marry a young woman from his own station in life. Then they meet again, when the Great War has changed them both into very different people. Brutally, Rupert rejects Grace - but she is determined that she will have the only man she can ever love...
