This text is the account of an extraordinary childhood disjointed by country and by war. Curiously mirroring her English grandmother, who married a German hairdresser in London and was then expelled to Germany following the outbreak of World War I, Katrin Fitzherbert was born in Germany in 1936 and lived under Hitler's regime before being repatriated at the age of 11 to an England she had never known. There she had to forget her German father and the German language. This is the story of three generations of remarkable women and their struggle for survival and integrity as individuals in times divided by war.