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The story begins in wartime London.
London, 1942
In 1942, Vanessa’s mother leaves London for a nursing home in Epsom. Her husband works as a fireman. She trained as a milliner. Their daughter’s first journey will take her from Epsom to relatives in Merton Park and home to Streatham.
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