By Janet WoodsRated ★★★★½
This is not one of those WOW, page turner kind of books, it just a sweet and gentle story about lonely souls overcoming adversity. I rated it high because I loved it. I am a sucker for sweet and gentle relationship stories. I have copied the blurb from my library site.
"During World War II in Dorset, England, young Jilly Turner lives with her mother, half brother, and half sister while waiting for their father to return from the war. Her flighty self-centered mother entertains an American GI, while Jilly, much younger than her siblings and lonely, makes friends with London evacuee Alec Frampton, an evacuee from London, who is her consolation through a difficult wartime childhood. But when Alec is orphaned and sent to Australia.
Lonely and missing Alec she becomes involved in an affair and ends up pregnant at seventeen with no choice but to give up the baby she loves so much. Jilly never stops missing the child she gave up. When Alec eventually comes back from Australia they find that their friendship has survived the long separation. The book has a happy ending. After all that I would have forcefully wall banged it if it hadn't.
