Notes

Originally published: as For love of Lily by Maggie Bennett. 2005



Lily Knowles leaves home to train as a nurse at the start of the Second World War. She falls in love with an RAF officer, Sandy. But the coming of the war and the chaos of the Blitz changes everything and on hearing of Sandy's affair with a married woman Lily throws herself into her work.



Later when Lily has become engaged to another man Sandy returns from the war scarred by burns and inwardly embittered. What of their once passionate love and her present commitment? Can the past ever be recaptured?