**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018**
**'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the
shadows' Sunday Times
**
One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to
take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she
will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston.
At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from
different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other.
They become inseparable.
Until the day a visitor from Rene's past arrives and their careful,
secluded life is thrown into confusion. Suddenly, all they have built
together is threatened. What will they do to protect themselves? And are
they prepared for the consequences?
'So lovely, gentle yet enthralling' Claire Fuller
'Quietly beautiful and brilliant. This is no bucolic idyll but an
unfolding of a plot that constantly twists and turns and surprises.
A truly wonderful, memorable novel**' Judges of the Walter Scott
Prize 2018**