The war is progressing for the Nippies, the girls who work at the LyonsCorner House in Marble Arch. With the air-raids, rationing and blackouts,life no longer has the carefree attitude it used to have. But new pain andpleasure await as everyone decides what effort they can make towardsvictory. Jo yearns for Nick, but the burns he sustained when he was shot down are life-changing and need the new procedure of plastic surgery. Will theirmarriage ever go ahead? And does Jo want it to? She loses herself in hernew role as lumberjill, one of the women hewing timber for the war effort.Meanwhile, Phyl has been selected, along with some other trustedNippies, for secret work. Far from family and friends, she works withmunitions and tries to forget her desire to be a Wren. Her husband is faraway but she never loses faith that one day they will be reunited...