“Vivid... successfully evokes the aching beauty of the bleak, watery landscape alive with bird life… A wartime parable of friendship and connection.”
--Kirkus Reviews

"Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Altogether a fine period novel, full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality."
--Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule

"Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling."
--Toby Litt

'A haunting and lyrical novel about loneliness and the compensations of the natural world, art and unlikely friendships. The characters of an unhappy evacuee from the East End and a conscientious objector will draw you in as they search for some kind of peace in the wide open landscapes of the fens and the story moves them to their own inevitable crises."
--Maggie Brookes, author of The Prisoner’s Wife