The Blue Note: a beautifully moving and unmissable wartime saga of love and loss from bestselling author Charlotte Bingham

During the Second World War, Eastenders Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns their underprivileged lives into something very near to Heaven: gathering wool from hedgerows, initiating do and mend campaigns, and trotting about the countryside with Tom Kitten, Aunt Prudence's pony. But when the Committee for Evacuation object to the women's efforts to adopt all three of them, it is Bobbie who is sent away to live with the Dingwalls in very different circumstances. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie -- who have come to regard themselves as a family unit -- are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war, and Miranda, now a beautiful young model, falls in love with grown-up Ted Mowbray, but unfortunately he can only think of her as a sister. In turn, he loves Bobbie,... Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jefferies and Kristin Hannah will not be disappointed by this magically romantic and dynamic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. "Will satisfy all Bingham's fans" - SUNDAY TIMES "Great summer escapism from an award-winning romantic novelist" - CHOICE "Her imagination is thoroughly original" - DAILY MAIL "This is a novel so heartbreaking........so touching it kept me glued to the pages just anticipating the outcome for these wonderful characters." — ***** Reader review "A wonderful read and very hard to put down" — ***** Reader review ************************************************************************** A TOUCHING STORY OF FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.... World War Two : Londoners Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie) , to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns their lives into something very near to Heaven: the archetypal idyllic countryside childhood. But when the two sisters learn they cannot adopt all three of them, it is Bobbie who is sent away to live with the Dingwalls in very different circumstances. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war, and Miranda, now a beautiful young model, falls in love with grown-up Ted Mowbray, but he can only think of her as a sister. In turn, he loves Bobbie, yet she has already met her beloved Julian , getting to know him during a summer by the sea in Sussex. How many hearts are destined to be broken and can they find their way to a happy and fulfilled future? Three young evacuees are sent to the country during the second World War, where they become friends and live together as a family, for a short idyllic time, until they are cruelly split up. They find each other again after the war, but any chance at romance is hindered by their past associations. Young evacuees Miranda, Ted and Roberta have been sent to the country during World War II where they become friends and live together for a short idyllic time until they are cruelly split up. They find each other again after the war, but any chance of romance is hindered by their past