One day in the 1920s a five-year-old girl runs into a wood. Two years later she walks out again and into the nearest house. The girl, known as Joy in the Cotswold village which adopts her, grows into a young woman at the advent of war and at last the mystery of her past begins to unravel.
This was a surprising read and ended up enjoying the story very much. The story is told mainly from a child's perspective - a child trying to make sense of the adults around her. This results in the story told in such a unique way. Kitty is an evacuee from London during World War II and is placed...