At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter, Grace, are like no one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and too na & iuml;ve to understand the cracks beneath the surface of her idyllic new life at the rectory or the disappointments of the Riverses' marriage ...
