Indifferent Heroes: 222 (VMC) - Softcover

In this fascinating and eventful second part of Mary Hocking's trilogy we discover what happens to the Fairley family and their friends, both young and old, once war has broken out. While some remain in England, enduring the fear and austerities of the Home Front, others, including the middle sister, Alice, are posted abroad to still harsher trials and temptations. Using many of her own wartime experiences, Mary Hocking moves from the infamous Burma railroad to London, from Egypt to the Sussex countryside and, with characteristic sympathy and clarity, shows a world torn apart by war.

Mary Hocking, educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Girls' School, served in the WRNS during World War Two. Her first novel, THE WINTER CITY, was published in 1961 and she has written twenty novels since then.