Miss Wetherby’s Return to London 1939

By: Molly Cutpurse

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When a Victorian childhood shatters beneath the blitz, two women must find courage, friendship, and hope amid the darkest days of World War II London.

Miss Clementine Wetherby moved to Bombay with her parents in 1899 when she was fifteen. In the summer of 1939, when her mother and father are violently murdered by separatists connected to the Salt Rebellion, she returns to her childhood home in London accompanied by her closest friend, Miss Aadhirai Varma. However, the congenial, courteous and respectful Victorian world she remembers so thoroughly has vanished and the prolonged malefic shadow of the Second World War is about to arrive.
With the help of a number of local, free spirited retainers and domestic help, Clementine and Aadhirai navigate their way through an increasingly complex period with humour and determination and while there are new and hopeful relationships for some, other issues can only be resolved by estrangement, imprisonment and even death.
As Miss Wetherby’s personal triumphs and tragedies are played out against the larger canvas of the Second World War, she takes each day one at a time, enduring the hardness of rationing, personal pain, dramatic loss of close friends, and even the deaths of those whom she would called friends. Nevertheless, she and Aadhirai realises that life in England after the war will never be the same again.