And then the sea. Spen-Esh L.

When German bombs begin to fall on London in 1940, Millie and Reginald Thompson decide on a difficult step: they send their eleven-year-old daughter Beatrice for the ocean, to safe America. There she has to live in a foreign family until the war ends. Frowned, angry at parents, lonely and lost, Bea arrives in a country so different from the gloomy military London. Mr. and Mrs. Ji, as well as their sons, William and Gerald warmly accept the Englishwoman, and soon she becomes her own in this new world, part of a happy family. It is time, the war does not subside in any way, and Bea already seems that there is nothing more natural than a quiet, calm life here, in a large and comfortable house, and the summer months full of fun on a tiny island. The gloomy London, forever tired parents begin to seem to her with something distant, but still Bea does not want to forget their childhood, their roots. And she returns home, but the memory of her American family forever in Bea's heart, and it is these memories that direct her through life.

“And then the sea” is a novel full of sun and fog, acute happiness and languid pain, forgiveness and understanding, loss and love.