Days of Grace

Nora is just twelve when the war breaks out and she joins the train-loads of evacuees leaving London’s East End for the safety of rural Kent. Her surrogate family, the Rivers, are unlike anyone she has ever met and she soon comes to love her new life with them, in particular with their daughter Grace.

As the Spitfires rage ever more fiercely overhead and it becomes clear that the Rivers’ marriage contains deep and irreparable cracks, the friendship between Nora and Grace intensifies and they grow as close as sisters – although, to Nora’s confusion, even this is not quite as close as she would like…

What happens next is a secret that will gnaw away at Nora for the rest of her life – a secret that she can only begin to tell when she is certain that she is approaching the end.