Billie Fulford-Brown

1917: When two young cousins, Frances and Elsie from Cottingley claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, the girls become a national sensation. One hundred years later: Olivia Kavanagh becomes fascinated by the story that mystified the world. But it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realise how the fairy girls' lives intertwine with hers…

1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, recently married Helene waves good-bye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Protected only by her father and Nanna, Helene must carve out a life on the island for the length of the war. Forty years later, her daughter Roz begins a search for the truth about her father and stumbles into the secret history of her mother's life.