To love someone need you know everything about them? When Alice and Josephmeet they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is anurse he a p... » 

To love someone need you know everything about them? When Alice and Josephmeet they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is anurse he a painter and decorator both are still young and hopeful of eachother but each brings with them an emotional burden. Alices father has been ayawning absence all her life and her beloved grandmother who helped raiseher has recently died. For his part Joseph refuses to speak about his armyexperiences in Northern Ireland and Alice suspects that his general reticencehides an even more deeply troubled past. When her widowed grandfather begins totell Joseph about his own RAF experiences in l950s Kenya stories he hadshared only with his wife something still raw is tapped in Joseph hisreaction to the older mans unburdening of guilt is both unexpected anddevastating for them all. Morally complex understated and powerfully movingAfterwards confirms Rachel Seifferts remarkable talent. «