Beneath the Same Sky

An airfield in wartime England. The American crews who flew from it. The lives changed forever on the ground below. Three heart-wrenching novels of love, loss, and the long wait for the bombers to come home.

NOTE: Another Time and Place and The Last Goodbye previously appeared in Echoes of War Box Set.

Another Time and Place

 England, 1944. Anna Pilgrim keeps a photograph on her bedside table – a chance encounter pressed into paper, the last proof that American pilot Tom Blake existed in her life before the war claimed him.

Then Tom fails to return from a mission over Europe, and the photograph is all Anna has left. What she doesn't know is that Tom is still alive, and making his way home through occupied Europe one dangerous mile at a time. Nor that in the moments when the fear and the exhaustion threaten to finish what the war started, it is the memory of Anna – and the photograph he carries – that keeps him moving.

But Anna's mother has not been idle. And what she has hidden may cost Anna everything.

The Last Goodbye

She was in love with an American airman. Decades later, her secret will change another woman's life.

 1944. Isobel Landon is desperate to do her bit for the war. With just a few months left of school she can barely wait to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Then she meets an American airman from the nearby base, and all her plans are thrown into jeopardy.

2014. When Emma Moss inherits a cottage in England from a mysterious benefactor, she is eager to discover the history behind it. But an old wartime diary reveals a shocking family secret. 

As she struggles to uncover the truth of the past, she begins to realise that sometimes goodbye heralds a new beginning.
 

When the Light Still Shone

Her life was shaped by a war. Her granddaughter's will be transformed by the truth.

1943. Peggy Ellis keeps the village pub running as the war reshapes the world around her. Every day, new American airmen arrive at the nearby base, and more bombers fill the sky. But when local resentments erupt into violence, Peggy steps in to help a young gunner caught in the crossfire. Her decision sparks an unexpected connection that lingers long after the night is over.

1995. In a fading photograph, Georgia discovers a secret from the past – her grandmother once loved an American airman. Taking a job in the same village pub where her grandmother once worked, Georgia begins to piece together a family history she never knew existed.

As the truth slowly comes to light, she realises that the choices we inherit can matter as much as the ones we make.

What readers are saying about Samantha Grosser's novels. 

""I didn't think my heart would be able to get me through this gripping story of love, betrayal, and emotional anxiety" – Reader review

"Very emotional and beautiful" – Reader review

"I did not want it to end ... I wanted this story to continue for at least another thousand pages" – Reader review

"Perfectly blended mix of history and love story" – Reader review