A Stranger CityWhen a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that, in London, a person can become invisible once outside their community and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary filmmaker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home, and how

Steine has so many awards and invitations coming his way that he has had to take on a secretary - but Sergeant Brunswick and Constable 'Clever Clogs' Twitten are both on the case

to rid him of this menace

a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts

or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when it is absent

Rhodes decided to look outwards

science and history of that leaf

When war breaks out Christa is forced to return home

stored and remembered

His aim is to match the pace at which the oak leaves emerge

But Isabel knows that such things can't be taken at face value

Granny Codd understands

It presents the detail of a regular officer's life at war during virtually the whole of World War I on the Western Front