It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season's splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives at the coastal town of Rye to take up a teaching position at the local grammar school in a community that remains resistant to the idea of female teachers ... The story of an unexpected heroine and an unassuming village, caught up in an unimaginable war - by the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. Witty, heart-warming and profoundly moving.