It is 1939 & great changes come running to meet them all snatching at their innocence & steadfast convictions & tossing them far away Alice Ben & Guy travel overseas serving in the same war but on very different battlegrounds For those who stay behind Judith Louise Claire & Daphne the struggle is to preserve the home to keep things going no matter what But the sudden insecurity of the war confuses them it gives them new strengths & fresh dreams but leaves them still furiously hunting for a future hoping that the old familiar beliefs will be patiently waiting for them to catch up again In the second volume of Mary Hocking's excellent trilogy England joins the world in its march to war sweeping along the members of the Fairley household their relations & friends