forbidden love and family secrets in world war two liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of goodnight sweetheart. rosie has grown up in the heart of liverpool's italian community, treated as one of their own. with a father away at sea and a mother more interested in other men than her only daughter, the bighearted grenellis are the closest thing rosie has to a proper family. but when war breaks out, and italy becomes the allies' adversary, everything changes. the community is torn in two: friends become enemies, neighbours become traitors and rosie is left uncertain of just who she can trust. as war intensifies, and liverpool is subjected to relentless bombings, things become more perilous. when a devastating attack leaves her mother dead, rosie is sent to live with her aunt in edge hill. her father is feared missing at sea and her aunt lets slip a family secret which has unimaginable consequences... fleeing her cruel aunt, rosie becomes a land girl and falls in love - with someone utterly forbidden. as bombs drop and families are ripped apart by conflict at home and abroad, can they find happiness or will war stand in their way?