This is a dystopian novel without a hint of fantasy or science fiction. It's a realistic story of 5 teens in wartime - cut off from any outside help and caught in an ever tightening noose of deprivation. The story is narrated by 15-year-old Daisy, who has escaped a hated life in New York with her recently remarried father and pregnant step-mother. Shortly after her arrival in the English countryside to visit her loving aunt (her dead mother's sister) and 4 cousins, her aunt is killed, the war erupts, and all of their lives are forever altered.
Cut off from outside information, media, supplies, with rumors raging, and facing the fear of an uncertain future, Daisy and her cousin Edmund draw close. As fear, hunger and deprivation mount, their relationship grows in equal measure - love balancing terror.
Love and war leave indelible scars in a powerful and moving story.
Cut off from outside information, media, supplies, with rumors raging, and facing the fear of an uncertain future, Daisy and her cousin Edmund draw close. As fear, hunger and deprivation mount, their relationship grows in equal measure - love balancing terror.
Love and war leave indelible scars in a powerful and moving story.
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