The Booker-winning author of the celebrated WWI trilogy }Regeneration{, turns for the first time to WWII, continuing the story of the characters in }Toby's Room{. In 1940, Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville are middle-aged. As the bombs fall and they struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want... Now in paperback.