A Sunday Times historical fiction book of the year

'A moving study of an unlikely friendship and the healing power of the natural world'?Sunday Times

'A tender portrait of wartime youth'?Guardian

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Frida is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to stay with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens.

Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash.

Amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, as the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will change the course of both their lives.