Global star Millie Bobby Brown Love's Sunday Times bestselling debut novel blossoms in the darkest of days…
Londra, 1942.
Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris is living a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends say she is going to marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door who is always sweet to her.
The arrival of Ray, a handsome American airman stationed nearby, causes Nellie to question everything she thought she knew about her future.
Nellie's new-found happiness is short-lived when a tragic accident occurs during an air raid. Even the closest family cannot escape the ravages of war, and as secrets and truths about that fateful night come to light, they threaten to separate Nellie and those dearest to her.
There is no healing without remembering, and there is no remembering without stories. Thank God Brown's Nanny Ruth, who was a survivor of love, told her grandson what she remembered. . You can open the Nineteen Steps for the names of famous people, but you can stick with this for the history of a little-known event of World War II.' - New York Times