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From the writer of the acclaimed Crooked Center comes another "smart, funny, ingenious, revealing story of London life during the Second World Conflict" (The Separate) - long-listed for the Orange Award after its original publication in England. It really is 1940. France has fallen, in support of a narrow remove of sea is situated between THE UK and invasion. The battle could go either way, and everyone must do their bit. Young copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda videos - something that the men aren't very proficient at. She actually is quickly seconded to the ministry's latest undertaking: a heartwarming story of bravery and save at Dunkirk. It's all completely fabricated, of course, but what will that matter when the country's morale reaches stake? Since call-up has stripped the industry of its brightest and best, it is the callow, the jaded, and the absolutely unsuitable who must make up the numbers: Ambrose Hilliard, third most popular British film star of 1924; Edith Beadmore, Madame Tussauds attire assistant changed costumier; and Arthur Frith, whose peacetime job as a wedding caterers manager hasn't really prepared him for his rapid, unpredicted elevation to special military services advisor. Now in a serious world, in a country under siege, they need to all swallow their shared distaste, unwell will, and mistrust to unite for the normal good, for ruler and country and - in one circumstance - for better or worse.