RATING: GOOD
SPOILERS!!!
After Paris is liberated, Jessica manages to get places in a plane after helping a British soldier. Henri, Frannie, and Sammy, her son, return to England. The first encounter is with Sara, and that doesn't go well because she disapproves of Frannie and Henri, especially when she says that Henri is the boy she will marry one day.
Then when Jessica goes to see her mother, she is surprised as her mother doesn't look the way she did before the war. There are children in the house, and Jessica is surprised to discover that her two children are among them. Ethel tells her that Bertie joined up but he has an office job in the war, and he took the children to her. Jessica is happy, but she is wary around her two older children. When Bertie turns up, he is still bitter towards her, and one night he tries to rape her, but thankfully, she is saved by the intervention of the father of the other children who her mother is housing.
Jessica is sad because thanks to Dillon, the children's father, she discovers that Sam went missing, presumed dead. So she has to accept that Sam is gone forever, Then feeling ashamed for his behaviour, Bertie tells the children that Jessica didn't know where they were during the war, and it was him who took him away. Also, he writes a letter, saying that after the end of the war he will go away and leave her alone. Jessica thinks that Bertie has gone over the top, and he doesn't need to leave. They can be parents to the children even though they are not a couple any longer.
The end of the book is happy as Sam goes back to Jessica. He was shot and ended up in Poland where he has been helping. And now he and Jessica have a life ahead of them.
This was a good, easy read. I loved the story, and my only criticism is that there were too many characters even if they were only part of the plot briefly.
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