Jules Hayes

Growing up around Winston Churchill’s country estate in Kent, Frank, Florence and Hilda are inseparable, but when Frank marries Hilda for duty rather than love, the three friends’ lives fragment.

As WW2 begins to cast its menacing shadow Frank goes on to make other catastrophic choices - the repercussions of which will leave a tragic legacy.

For over fifty years Florence has been the keeper of Frank’s secrets, but soon after his death in 2002 she writes to his grandson, Richard, hinting at his family’s troubled past. Richard digs further and unearths disturbing secrets that not only haunted his grandad, but will impact on him too.

When a pivotal encounter between Frank and Churchill during WW2 is revealed and a mystery relative in a psychiatric hospital discovered, how much more does Florence dare disclose about her and Frank? And is Richard ready to hear?