Born at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, Mary and Walter Tilford's baby daughter is named Thursday. It was meant to be a message of hope for the future - but they could not foresee that by the time Thursday celebrated her 21st birthday, Britain would once again be at war with Germany. Thursday volunteers as a nurse , and begins her service at Haslar Hospital on the shores of Portsmouth Harbour. But the realities of war are brought home to her when the casualties begin to arrive from Dunkirk. Determined to show strength and bravery in the face of war, Thursday cannot abandon her dreams for the future and her hopes for a lasting love...

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