dover

In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.

Traces twelve generations of the Tuttle family's history as one of New England's oldest farming families, describing the hardships they faced and how each generation strived to make the farm larger and more productive.