The evening chorus : a novel
(Book)

RAF pilot James Hunter, shot down on his first mission, spends the Second World War in a German POW camp where his interest in the local birds leads him to develop a complicated relationship with the prison's kommandant. Meanwhile, back in England, his desperately lonely young wife, Rose, falls into a passionate affair with a soldier stationed nearby and forms an unexpected friendship with James' sister, Enid, who has lost everything during the Blitz in London.