A small town of Chester's Mill, Maine is inexplicably & suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field.
...' Let's get one thing straight: I'm not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water rafting & being savaged
... Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia.
All expenses as well as passage covered.
...
Portsmouth, January 1941. When the Luftwaffe unleashes its full fury on the city in the first of three major blitzes, the Taylor family are bombed out. Judy finds her job relocated from the gutted Guildhall to a hotel in Southsea, & home is now a small terraced house in April Grove, with one fewer bedroom & no bathroom or inside lavatory. & then there is the news she has been dreading: her sailor fiance has been killed. Judy & her young, recently widowed aunt Polly decide to turn their grief to good account, & join the WVS
- running canteens, accompanying evacuee children, & helping the families of servicemen, often in the face of danger from air raids, flying bombs & V2 rockets. Gradually, Judy & Polly find their own grief healing as they take part not only in their war work but in the life of April Grove, & although both are at first convinced they will never know love again, they both find it in the least likely manner.