Drinking coffee in a tea room on a 72-hour pass, young American pilot Tom Blake watches a woman who is waiting for a friend. He isn’t looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim on this cold winter afternoon changes everything. So begins a passionate affair.
Their happiness does not last. Shot down over Europe, wounded, in hiding, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive. And Anna, left waiting in England, has no way of finding out. Separated by the war, they have only the strength of their love and their memories to connect them.
When Anna discovers she is pregnant, she must face the gossip of others and the wrath of her bitter and manipulative mother. Weeks, then months pass without news, and she begins to lose hope. How can she know that Tom is struggling to return to her? Or that the thought of being with her again is all that keeps him going on the long and arduous journey home?
Interwoven with the brutality and danger of Tom’s fight to survive is the story of Anna’s own struggle to face the uncertainty of waiting. Set vividly against the hardship and horror of the Second World War, ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE is at once a compelling love story, an enthralling adventure and a moving depiction of the resilience of the human spirit.
Author Samantha Grosser is an English graduate who spent several years travelling and working as an English... Author Website
- ISBN10 0230002358
- ISBN13 9780230002357
- Publish Date 3 November 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan New Writing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English