Mollie I just want you to know that I've just finished the book and thoroughly enjoyed it — thank you so much for the recommendation! We were talking about it at work today, and I was saying how I had never really thought what the occupation of the Channel Islands really meant to the people living there —I had no idea that there was no food or that red cross parcels were stopped for much of the time. Anyway — there's now a queue wanting to borrow it LOL!!!