title: Wave Me Goodbye
author: Sherwood, Jura MacLean
description: As the Punjohpur sails down the River Mersey and Liverpool disappears from view, twenty-two year old Priscilla Thornton's noble ideas of serving her country by accompanying 241 evacuees from Britain to safety in Canada are beginning to wane - and well they might. The year is 1940 and Britain is at war. When fate assigns Cilla's childhood sweetheart Ted Evans, a signaler in the Royal Navy, to the Punjohpur, he is furious to find Cilla has ignored his advice and is aboard. Four nights later, at the height of an Atlantic storm, the Punjohpur is torpedoed. In the chaos Cilla and Ted are separated. Over the course of the next three months, Cilla faces raw terror, cold, hunger, and captivity. Far from being a tale of failure and despair, this is the story of a young woman's emotional growth through her own courage and determination to survive and to be reunited with Ted.