Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Vera Fletcher is Edie's mother — the steady heart of the Bethnal Green house and the voice in the letters that reach Edie in Devon. Hers is the hardest decision in the whole story, and it belongs to the prequel, The Last Ordinary Summer: whether to send her only child away to keep her safe. Warm, dry, and braver than she looks, she stays in London through it all and keeps home standing — in every sense — for a daughter far away.