Product Description

Kay Clifton has waited five, long, lonely years for her husband Bob to come home from the war. Despite her excitement at his return, their whirlwind romance prior to his departure makes her feel as though she hardly knows him, so it's not surprising that Kay is apprehensive when she meets him at the station.

Kay's hopes of starting their blissfully happy marriage are dashed by the presence of Bob's fellow soldier Tony. Bob is indebted to Tony for saving his life and seems hell bent on repaying that debt to the couple’s detriment. But as Tony starts acting more and more strangely, Kay worries that something else happened during the war that Bob is keeping secret. And Bob himself isn't behaving like the man whom she waved off so tearfully all those years ago. But with the love and encouragement of her family and friends, Kay is determined that whatever it takes she will bring out the Bob with whom she first fell in love and forge the future that they had envisaged before the war wreaked its havoc.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #488587 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

About the Author
Lynda Page was born and brought up in Leicester. The eldest of four daughters, she left home at seventeen and has had a wide variety of office jobs. She lives in Leicester.

Customer Reviews

Very dated.
The Second World War is over and husbands are coming home. However, our heroine soon comes to feel let down by her reunion. Her man brings home an unwelcome friend who saved his life out in the Far East, and this uncouth stranger intrudes mercilessly on their marriage. Her husband is remote and acts out of character. He defers to his friend and no longer includes her. So what is going on? Does he still love her? If so, why is he acting so unnaturally? And what really happened during the War?

I am not being derogatory when I say this slim tale is totally a woman's story. The emphasis is very much on the characters, their emotions and "inner feelings", and extremely convincing and very well done they all are too. The period feel is pretty good too, although this could cause problems. The accurate social attitudes displayed could make it hard for modern liberated women to identify with the heroine. The plot has whiskers, and the resolution is utterly unbelievable, but the superb characterisation really does carry all before it.