This book is dedicated to the Channel Islanders who did not return from Nazi concentration camps, prisons and internment camps after the war.

I would also like to dedicate it to my fearless friend Beatrice Orwell, otherwise known as “Beatty,” who took a stand against the Blackshirts at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. Beatty, like the character she inspired in this book, also worked as a wartime postwoman and was never afraid to fight fascism, persecution or discrimination of any kind. She died two weeks shy of her 106th birthday. I shall miss her big laugh and her even bigger heart.