A tale of love and conflict in wartime England.

Rilla Gray would never have met Barney Wainwright if the outbreak of war in September 1939 hadn't seen him posted to her home town. Ill-matched in background and worldliness, Rilla is dazzled by the attractive, young officer until a hasty marriage based on necessity ends a charming interlude. Neither is prepared for the ravages of war, the equally intense battlefield of their fateful marriage nor the gnawing lonliness of long separation.