Inspired by heartbreaking and real events, this a gripping and moving story about two sisters, separated by war and by oceans, who must find their way back to each other…

1940: Alice and Jenny's life is just beginning when the Nazis seize control of the island of Jersey, driving the girls down separate paths. While Alice is forced by the enemy to work in the German hospital, Jenny is attracted to the circle of islanders rising to resist the occupiers.

1996: The war may have ended decades earlier, but for the elegant woman sitting alone now, the images live on in her memory: her sister's carefree laughter, the inky black of a German soldier's boots, the little boats that never came back. And the one constant through it all: the lighthouse that always guided them back to the island...

 Product Information: 
• ISBN:  9781472279958
• Author:  Gill Thompson
• Publisher:  Headline Review
• Format:  Paperback
• Pages:  448
• Dimensions:  13.02 x 3.18 x 20 cm