num_pages: 304
description: Downed during his first mission James Hunter is taken captive as a German POW. To bide the time he studies a nest of redstarts at the edge of camp. Some prisoners plot escape; some are shot. And then one day James is called to the Kommandants office. Meanwhile back home Jamess new wife Rose is on her own free in a way she has never known. Then Jamess sister Enid loses everything during the Blitz and must seek shelter with Rose. In a cottage near Ashdown forest the two women jealously guard secrets but form a surprising friendship. Each of these characters will find unexpected freedom amid wars privations and discover confinements that come with peace.
language: English
title: The Evening Chorus
publisher: Harper Paperbacks