Clever Freddie Tanner and beautiful but apparently 'simple' Kathleen Soper are childhood sweethearts in the grimy, deprived streets of the East End, growing up in the shadows of fascism and under the relentless savagery of the Blitz.Kathy's mother dies in childbirth. Freddie's mother dies in a terrible accident in which her violent husband's involvement is unclear. It is an incident which Freddie can never forget, for he is tormented by his inability...