What would happen if you had to escape your life and start again in another country? If you hadn't got anywhere to live, if you couldn't speak the language, if you had no school to go to?
Drawn from many times and places, retold and reimagined for the 21st century, Elizabeth Hopkinson's second book of myths and tales brings asexuality out of the closet and gives it the history it has been denied.
From Oran and Casablanca to the heart of Africa, then into the cauldron of Normandy and the Liberation of Paris, Jack's fate is also bound to those who will betray them, and to the enemies who want Telford dead.