Follows the fortunes of one Frank Arthur Vine, the result of a tryst in a field between his mother Cassie and an American GI. This is an enormously affecting tale of family and sisterhood, of the kindness and the madness of women, of the fantastic breaking through in a troubled world.

(Key Words: Novels, Graham Joyce, Fiction, Family, Sisterhood, World War II, Adolf Hitler, Jews, World War Two).