Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Tom Pengelly is the farm boy Edie is billeted alongside — first her rival, all "vacky" taunts and turned shoulders, then her closest ally and the friend who roots her into Devon. Near her own age and twice as sure of his own ground, he shows her the hares and the badger-bank and the sea, and asks nothing when she shows him her key. Theirs is the friendship the whole series turns on — the kind that lasts, by letter, long after the war.