This is the first book by this author that I have read.It came highly recommended by a friend, as it is partly based in Dorset, which is an area that we both know very well. The story's chapters jump backwards and forwards from 1939 in Spain to 2011 in England and introduces different characters along the way and I found it difficult to link it all together. I was not sure where the story was going until about halfway through, then it began to fall into place. The characters were good. The story linked fact and fiction, which I found very interesting, but I was disappointed with the ending.