My Own Little Place: Adventures in the Quest to Find One's Place in Life

In the spring of 1944, Southwick House is overtaken by the War Office, ending the family home's auspicious five-hundred-year existence in preparation for Normandy landing forces. Its residents are forced to depart. Every person has a place, and now comes the time to find theirs.

Bronagh's strict Irish Catholic upbringing has made her restless. She dreams of something else, longing for an escape that will show her everything life can be beyond what she knows. Her school's mobile library gives...