Island Song

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In 1940, Helene - young, naïve and recently married - waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her hone, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation. Forty years later, her daughter, Roz, begins a search for the truth about her father, and stumbles into the secret history of her mother's life. As Roz discovers, truth is hard to pin down, ans so are the rights and wrongs of those struggling to survive in the most difficult of circumstances