ASIN: B00IPN5DLA
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 211
Tumbling from a train into the bleak world created by Our Beloved Leader, an innocent young man, Boots, makes his escape and runs off into the night in search of home and family. On the train he leaves behind him Goitre, Swilly, Hook and Greybeard - his dearest friends from the internment camp, now left to their fate.He gains the strength to continue his quest when he takes refuge with a woman, who is defiantly waiting for her sons' return in the last farmhouse left standing after the bombing. There she tells him of the loss of her children and her husband, the doctor, to the regime. But she does not tell him of her strange relationship with the army captain, who patrols the area every spring. Boots and the woman comfort one another with memories of their past - with stories of love, friendship, self-sacrifice and endurance. But Boots has to leave her at the end of winter and must ...
