We are at war

The stories of: Pam Ashford, a secretary at a shipping company; Christoper Tomlin, a salesman in Preston; Tilly Rice, who moves her children to Cornwall but returns to her home in Surrey just as the bombs start to fall; Eileen Pottder, a London social worker; Maggie Joy Blunt, a writer. Beginning in August 1939, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain and the start of the Blitz.