Judith Dunbar has never really known the security of a settled family life So when her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites her home for the weekend, she is thrilled With her first glimpse of the Carey-Lewises' beautiful Cornish estate, it is love at first sight She falls in love, too, with the family and their friends - who help her grow into a confident young woman But the gathering storm of war extinguishes much of the carefree laughter, and Judith herself has far to go before at last coming home