They say war wives must wait. Gwen Evans Pilkington retells the story of three Canadian women waiting and struggling with life alone in wartime England, coping with gnawing anxiety, bizarre landladies, and all the difficulties of living in a strange land in the midst of a world convulsed by war. In describing this life of quiet heroism, through childbirth and widowhood, Gwen Pilkington is writing from personal experience. Her story is unassuming, authentic and finally, triumphant.