Zweigstelle	Signatur	Status	Vorbestellungen	Frist
Zweigstelle: Gemeindebücherei Ish	Signatur: Zoa Lev	Status: Verfügbar	Vorbestellungen: 0	Frist:

It's 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours don't approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when, or even if, her husband will return. What else can she do?

 

Gilbert Joseph was one of the many Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight Hitler. But when he returns to England as a civilian he doesn't receive the welcome he was expacting, and it's desperation that drives him to knock at Queenie's door.

 

Gilbert's wife Hortense, who for years has longed for a better life in England, soon joins him. But London is far away from the golden city of her dreams, and even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was ...