When the swallows come again - Victor Pemberton

Orphaned by war, united by hope...It's 1944, and twenty-year-old Mary Trimble is struggling to make ends meet.
The death of her parents in the Bethnal Green tube disaster means Mary is the sole provider for her siblings and elderly granddad.
When she meets handsome Lennie Backer he gets her a job at the magnificent Marlborough cinema, and helps keep a watchful eye over her increasingly unruly siblings.
Mary soon realises she is falling in love with him, but his constant secrecy worries her.
She longs to escape on the famous Blue Coach from Victoria to some peaceful, faraway place, but her dream will come at a tragic price...