Through her genealogical research into her family saga, and her own experiences as a working class woman, Patricia Putt Nicoll knows that for everyone, ordinary life happens whether you want it to or not. Nowhere is this truer than in Britain's thriving capital. Forced to leave her Ealing home during the height of the London Blitz, Pat was a little too young to recognise the importance of what was unfolding around her. When a bad thing in life happens, it is the people who get you through, and Pat recalls the men and women who slipped under the radar of modern history by leading an ordinary life and helping where they could. But not everything is doom and gloom. A story of family is at its core a story about hope and about the future, and Pat recalls how the births, marriages, and bonds of her family resonate throughout the generations and echo into tomorrow. A family saga spanning continents and centuries, from the ancient Highlands of Scotland to the London Blitz, this modern history told through the eyes of working class men and women is not one to be missed.