Two boys are growing up in wartime London. One is Martin, a lonley, swottish only child. The other is Dovidl, a brilliant young refugee violinist from Warsaw. Bloos-brothers, they roam the ruined city, finding tragedy and triumph, sex and crime. It is the time of their lives. Then Dovidl disappears, on the afternoon of his international debut, Martin is broken-hearted, his father near-bankrupted, the police mystified. Where has he gone ? Martin is condemned to forty years of humdrum half-life, until, one wintry night, an unexpected musical clue sets him on the trail to an astounding act of self-discovery and renewal.

Fiction, Crime, Second World War, London Blitz