About The Book

THEY WERE STRANGERS UNTIL SURVIVAL MADE THEM A FAMILY

During the final twelve days of a forgotten war three pairs of strangers begin walking toward the same impossible promise.

A mother carries her daughter through a city running out of food. An elder sister struggles to keep her sick younger brother alive. Two lovers working beneath a ruined railway station secretly surrender their own chances of escape for people whose names they barely know.

Their lives become connected by a red scarf, a damaged map, a wooden bird, and rumours of one final evacuation train.

When the sky forgets those suffering beneath it, what remains is the fragile, stubborn tenderness people offer one another.