A story of passion and courage against the backdrop of World War II - Helen Conroy’s happy family is shattered when her husband asks for a divorce. Then, in September, 1942, US troops pour into Mowbray. Captain Simon Johnson, a US military intelligence agent, is billeted with the Conroy family and he and Helen fall deeply in love. Months later, the US forces leave for battle, Captain Simon amongst them . . .
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Helen Conroy has lost her London home to the blitz and her husband to a younger woman when the Americans set up camp on the fields surrounding her father's house. As war-blasted England changes with the infusion of Americans, Helen finds herself reluctantly changing as well, due to Captain Simon Johnson, who is billeted with her family. Bitter after her husband leaves, Helen, the mother of a teenager and a foster Jewish son, fights the growing attraction she feels toward Simon, a New York lawyer who joined the army after Pearl Harbor. He yearns to join the real fight, if only the army will let him. Instead he has been working in intelligence first in South America, and now is employed to help strengthen British-American relationships, and to root out German sympathizers and spies. His investigation leads him to Helen's family, and he knows his mission will compromise their budding relationship. Swindells delivers a sensitive love story filled with self-sacrificing characters who epitomize the brightness of the human spirit even under the darkness of war. --Booklist, 1st September 2009
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Swindells was born and educated in England. As a teenager, she emigrated with her parents to South Africa where she studied archaeology and anthropology at Cape Town University. The author of numerous novels, her work has been translated into nine languages and has reached bestseller lists across the world. She currently lives in Kent.
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