Violet lies in hospital in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and with her husband deployed to the Front, she must put herself back together. In a small town in the valleys, another Violet contemplates the fate she shares with her unborn child - unwed and unwanted. As the lives of these two Violets intertwine, a spellbinding story of courage emerges, suffused with power and beauty. An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War.