London, summer 1947. Two years into the peace, Sparrow Street is a street transformed — the men home, the marriages mended, the children growing up free of the war their mothers lived through, and a whole new generation being born into a world worth the winning.
When Margaret and David welcome a baby girl, they name her Dawn — for the new world rising, at last, from the ashes of the old. For Nell Cutler, the street's fierce, warm-hearted heart and soul for thirty years, that small arrival closes a circle of loss and love thirty years in the making.
As Sparrow Street gathers for a joyful summer celebration — the returned men, the healed marriages, the widows and the peace babies, all together at last — Grace Bellamy looks back on the whole extraordinary journey that brought them here, and forward to a new world rising: a fairer Britain, a National Health Service born free for everyone, and a street that never stopped holding each other up.
A warm, moving chapter in the saga of the women who carried Sparrow Street through its darkest years — and into the dawn.
Book Ten in the Sparrow Street Girls saga. Can be read as part of the series or enjoyed on its own.
