Imagine learning at the age of forty-nine that you were adopted, and in the course of tracing your birth parents, find your happy thirty-year marriage threatened by the outcome. This is the dilemma facing Barbara McNab when she returns alone to the English village of Littlingham where she believes she was born. Before her search is over she will learn how children suffer psychologically when war separates them for many years from their families; how, for some whose entire family died as a result of war, the guilt of survival causes lifelong trauma. Missing her husband, but afraid to reveal her searchas unimaginable conclusion, Barbara struggles alone to solve the mystery. Underlying the adventure, mystery and even a murder, is the story of a love that, having thrived for thirty years, is strengthened by coming so close to being lost forever.