The stakes seem to rise slowly, coming to a breaking point as Petra’s personal tragedies intertwine with the grim reality of the Dunkirk evacuation. Could it be that Petra’s nearest and dearest aren’t what they seem? No one in her family is acting normally. Her German-born mother is accused of treason and sent to an internment camp, and though Petra is confident of Mutti’s innocence, someone has been sending state secrets to the Nazis. When the war begins, some of the villagers-her neighbors for her entire life-behave abominably to Petra’s family. Twelve-year-old Petra lives in a lighthouse on the coast of England, so close to Europe that she can see right across to France on a clear day.
An English girl whose mother is German is ensnared by her neighbors’ bigotry and by apparent treason at the onset of World War II.
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