In this, the second of the Hocking WWII trilogy, the storyline moves from the Fairley family to particular members of the family and how their lives change & how they deal with those changes throughout the War. The story is told mainly through the lives of the eldest daughter, Louise & the middle daughter, Alice.
Louise is now married & the mother of two, whose husband is off to war. The time in interminable for her and she needs diversion. Not for her the war-time volunteer work nor church work that seems to keep her now widowed mother, Judith sane and busy.
The middle daughter, Alice has joined the Wrens and is occupied with travels to far off places where she is needed for the war-effort. She seems to not quite fit in with the other girls who are more free with their favors but seems to spend most of her free time pondering her life, her future and her friendships. She falls in love with a man who is gone to war also and much of her time is taken up with letters to him.
There is not a whole lot about Claire, the youngest of the three daughters, in this book. She still appears to me to be the spoiled darling of her youth and not grown up at all.
I enjoyed this book a great deal.

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