An astonishing, richly interwoven story from #1 bestselling author Joanne M. Harris, beautifully illustrated by the multiple award-winning Charles Vess.
'If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?'No, sir, no way!'What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler?For Robert Jacklin, it's all new: new continent, new country, new school.
On her first day at a new school, Ruby finds a note in her locker saying I Know You Did It. She's terrified that someone has found out she was responsible for the death of a girl called Hannah in a playground when they were both toddlers - a secret she has been keeping guiltily for ten years.
Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war.