Because of the scandal and ill feeling, that is now spread around Mary Grace, who is now calling herself Gracie, she and her good friend Mia, soon decide to look for another house that they can move into and hopefully lay quiet and soon be forgotten. Cook is very happy to go with them. Gracie has always like the Sussex Downs, they soon find a house, and hope that they can go there incognito, they are amazed to find that the people in that small part of the area, starts to call them The Foreign Sisters. They both have very dark hair they speak with a trace of a foreign accent. They very soon...

Syria is a place that can no longer be called Home. Many people are fleeing from the bombing. Salma with her brothers, mother, and a father (who tells her he is going to find her a husband), decide to walk the many miles to freedom. Salma has heard of girls being educated, and this is what she wants. On the walk she meets many people and makes a friend of a Greek girl. When a chance comes, Salma leaves her family and strikes out with her friend to find Education, Peace and Happiness

Norma is a young and immature girl, just starting to work and get away from her mother's dominant control. She is bewitched by a debonair newspaper reporter whom she allows to be far too free with her. He tells her he is going home to inform his parents that he is going to marry her, Then she finds that he has been sacked from his job and will no longer have work in their town. She suspects that she is pregnant, becomes frightened of life, but is helped by her father and a friend. She does not want a baby, but when it is born a magic moment happens and they look into each other eyes. Norma is...

As the years went by. Amy who had always enjoyed singing, was making a good name for her self with recordings and now quite a few lively appearances on Television. She had recently married the police man that years earlier had told her that her husband was dead, killed in a motor accident. Her life now seemed more secure, with her children around her. New friends in an unknown part of the country. The problems that came into her life were not her own, . She was now a shoulder to cry on for the people that needed her. She wondered what more was there for her to expect.

Mary grace is a small child who has been looking after her cantankerous Father since her mother died. When her father also goes to meet his maker, Mary Grace is pushed from one home to another, feeling lost and unwanted until she inherits a house. She then asks the stable boy to marry her. He is not happy to live in a smart home. So Mary grace gives him money to go and explore America with its Allure of the gold rush, and the wonderful open spaces. That is not the end of her problems she very soon finds that it is just the beginning.

Amy was a widow with three very young children. For a long time she had been looking for a house cheap enough for her to buy, as she wanted a good home for her children. At last a woman made her an offer of a house that was just about perfect for Amy's needs, at a price that she could afford, but it had to be purchased in a hurry. The day that Amy and her children moved in she had to face problems that she had never imagined. The more that she worried desperately trying to put thing right the deeper she fell into a bottomless pit.

Evacuee Lottery is mainly a true story with just a few flights of my imagination to add a little humour when my memories became too sad. Many of the children remained in Polegate long after the war was over. Some that returned to London would visit Polegate just to keep in touch with old friends.

Gracie, Mia and the two sisters Vicky and Sally Soon make themselves at home in the Hidden Manor and Marshalls Farm, Vicky is soon married to the owner of the Farm Amos Marshall, but he is a very ill man, she tends him as well as she can, and grieves for him constantly. When Amos her husband dies, she is overcome and afraid that she might have to leave the farm. That is a time when so many Irish men are looking for a way to stay in England. Vicky takes on a group of them, they are very hard working but she is amazed to find that three of them form a musical group they play their instruments...

Elli, a Romany girl, has finally married Rueben the German Jewish Manager of her mill. She is horrified by news coming from Germany about the way Jews are being treated and she involves her own family in attempts to save Jewish children and to provide homes for them in England. The horror of war comes to Sussex after 1939. Farmworkers go into the Forces and Land Army girls arrive, Searchlight batteries are set up on the Downs, extinguishing the gentle light of the Fireflies so beloved by Elli. She notes the change in peoples' attitudes towards one another as the dangers of war involve her own...