It’s 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And worst of all – following the death of his heroic older brother – Valentine is now Sir Valentine, and is responsible for the whole bloody place. To Valentine, it’s a millstone; to Zena Baxter, who has never really had a home before being evacuated there with her small daughter, it’s a place of wonder and sentiment, somewhere that she can’t bear to leave. But Zena has been living with a secret, and the end of the war means she has to face a reckoning of her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author Lissa Evans Published by Penguin Books ISBN 9781804991978 EAN 9781804991978 Bic Code FV|FBA|FS Cover Paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":103044,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4000],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-89339","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fiction","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n