London, spring 1943. In the middle of a war that has taken so much, Sparrow Street is about to be given something it desperately needs — hope.
When Ivy Fletcher's baby arrives in the middle of an air raid, delivered by lamplight by the women of the street themselves, she and her husband Jack name her exactly what she is: Hope. A small, warm, living answer to three long years of grief and darkness.
But even as the street celebrates its new baby, the war reaches out again — a telegram for Vera Pike brings news that will test her to her core. It falls to the tightly-knit women of Sparrow Street, and to baby Hope herself, to draw a grieving heart back into life.
As the tide of the war slowly begins to turn, the street dares, for the first time in four long years, to believe that the end might really be coming — and learns that hoping again, after so much loss, takes a courage all its own.
A moving story of grief, healing, and the fierce, ordinary love of women who would not let the darkest years take away their hope.
Book Five in the Sparrow Street Girls saga. Can be read as part of the series or enjoyed on its own.
