On Westminster Bridge (Wordsworth) Ode To A Nightingale (Keats) On Wenlock Edge (A.E. Housman) Youth And Age On Beaulieu River (Betjeman) A Subaltern's Love Song (Betjeman) Hunter Trials (Betjeman) Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Tennyson) Daffodils (Wordsworth) Sonnet No.2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow (Shakespeare) Sonnet No.18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? (Shakespeare)...
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.