The Exile's Daughter — John Wheatley

The Exilès DaughterMoving from Church Bay, on Anglesey, to the battles of the Somme and Flanders, The Exilès Daughter follows the fortunes of Polish refugee Lauren Bucievski, and Jimmy Jilkes, circus runaway, door-to-door salesman, and soldier, through the earth shattering years of the early twentieth century. When Lauren and her father take flight from Poland during the 1905 revolution, the ten year old girl has little understanding of who her fathe&rgrave;s enemies are. Seven years later, when she befriends the likeable and happy-go-lucky Jimmy, and when the charismatic Stefan turns up from Poland, her life is thrown into conflict, vulnerable as she is, in her isolation, to the dangers of her own dawning sexuality. The outbreak of war in 1914 becomes the defining factor in how each of their destinies will turn out