Another time and place
By: by Samantha Grosser
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780750526647
Subjects: Military Air pilots; Fiction; Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Missing in action; Pregnant women; Social conditions
Description: In a tea room, in England, 1944, young American pilot Tom Blake watches a woman who is waiting for a friend. He isn't looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim changes everything. So begins a passionate affair. When he is shot down, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive and struggling to return to her, while the pregnant Anna must face gossip and the wrath of her mother. As the months pass, she begins to lose hope. How is she to know that the thought of her is all that keeps Tom going on the long and arduous journey home?
Notes: Originally published: London: Heinemann New Writing, 2006.