Long Shadows

A Londoner by birth, Alice Chase met her husband, Walter, while visiting Somerset on a charabanc trip. She has now lived in the small Somerset village of Bramwell with Walter and their four children for twenty years. Into her contented world, her old friend Tilly comes for a visit, and unwittingly stirs up long-buried feelings. Alice refuses to acknowledge them, as her family means everything to her, but as that family life seems gradually to be disintegrating, Alice becomes more unsettled and unsure. In the early months of 1939, Alice's future is sealed in a way she never expected.