This charming and insightful novel tells a little known part of World War II history through the eyes of a young English writer whose life is changed forever when she decides to go to the Isle of Guernesy to meet in person some of the people with whom she has established a friendship through correspondence. This tale, at times light and humorous and at times somber, reveals the courage of the people and the lingering effects of Nazi occupation on the residents of this small isolated island.