Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is so disgusted by Ada's clubfoot that she locks the child away. When her little brother Jamie is evacuated from London to escape the city's bombing by the German Luftwaffe, Ada decides that she will leave with him. Thus begins a great adventure for Ada as well as for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two children in at her home in the countryside, despite her own worries. As Ada learns to ride ponies, picks up reading, and tentatively makes connections, she even begins to trust Susan – and Susan starts to open her heart to Ada and Jamie. But will their bond be enough to get them through the war together? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother? This amazing story, set in one of the most explosive periods in world history, is equally an adventure and a moving tale about family, identity, and self-worth. It is sensitively read by Birte Schnöink.