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Eighteen-year-old Alice Glass is rescued from her life in a small terraced house in the northeast town of Margrove when she volunteers to help in the wartime evacuation of schoolchildren to the Yorkshire dales. Here, she is reunited with shy, pretty Elsbeth Hobbs, a teaching assistant from Alice's hometown but from a privileged social background. Caught up in the mystery of foreigner Gus Rielke's nefarious connection with farmer Bob Symmonds, Alice is helped by her admirer, Davy Brown, a labourer on a nearby estate. But it is the truth about Alice's unacknowledged feeling for Elsbeth that brings about the most startling consequences.
David Herbert, brought up in the privileged ranks of Edwardian society, is dominated by his sisters, Gertrude and Clarah. At public school, he is pitilessly bullied and at home his only true friend is Nelly Tovey, the young maid he has known since childhood. His father's brutal efforts to make a man of him, and his opposition to the Great War, lead to David being disowned by his family. Living on a pittance in London, he becomes seriously ill and is nursed to recovery by the devoted Nelly. Though acknowledging their love, Nelly is all too aware of the enormous gulf between them, and it is up to David to look within himself for the courage to defy convention. Can they breach the formidable barriers to their happiness?
Travelling alone from India to England in 1940, newly married Cissie Humphreys is captured after her ship is torpedoed. Facing the stark choice of either prison or collaboration with the enemy, she works for their propaganda service led by the infamous Lord Haw-Haw and falls in love with charismatic Sean Munroe, an IRA rebel. After training as a secret agent, Cissie accompanies Sean on a spying mission to a small fishing village on the north Yorkshire coast. But it is not long before Cissie alone must face the consequences. Now the only chance to save herself is to act as a double agent for the British. Where will it all lead?