1938. Penelope George lives a charmed existence preparing to be a debutante. But it is an empty life-a gilded cage with its door firmly shut on adventure and independence.
When her sister Evadne needs her help in Athens, Penny seizes the opportunity to escape the straitjacket of London society. Arriving in the historic city, she reinvents herself, finding her true vocation as a Red Cross nurse, just another stranger among strangers. Until war breaks out.
Penny finds herself stranded on the island of Crete, tending the wounded and dying, one of the few foreign nurses left on the battlefield. Forging a dangerous friendship with Yolanda, a young Jewish nurse, Penny attracts the unwanted attention of a high-ranking German officer. Little does she know how this encounter will change her life
Sixty years later. It is time for Penny to return, to make the journey she never thought she'd dare to, reliving those final dark days stranded on the island as the last remaining female foreignet.
It's a pilgrimage which will lead her to a reunion with someone she thought she had lost forever and the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past.
Historical fiction

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