Ruth is a small solemn girl, growing up surrounded by elderly relatives in the 1930s – when the world was such a different place. War breaks out and the world changes around her. Love is found and lost, more than once. Ruth is torn between two beloved homes, Devon and Lincolnshire, her grandmother Mady and her dearest great-aunt Stella. Oswin is a dear father, whom Ruth can never quite respect as much as she would like to, and she has to come to terms with the shock of his marriage to her own great school friend, Hilde, one of the thousands of German Jewish children who came to England under the Kindertransport scheme, just before the Second World War. Family, friends, home, history. . . sooner or later we all come Full Circle.