FOUR women await the return of their husbands after The Second World War ends.

Carrie Pollard's husband was a POW and suffers from nightmares; Gwen is devastated when her husband's ship is torpedoed and he is listed missing, presumed dead; Shirley was engaged to Bernard, but while he was away she had an affair with and American GI; and Velma became a bus conductress while her husband was away driving tanks.

More than one secret is unearthed and the four friends discover they are not the only ones to have changed.

Daphne Curtis