Publisher's Synopsis
A moving true story of a love that survives separation, madness and war... In 1939 Pamela Kirrage met Donald Hill, a handsome RAF pilot. After a golden summer of courtship, they became engaged. In September their plans disintegrated. Hill was transferred to Hong Kong, where he began a diary, in code, transforming letters into numbers. Returning from the war, after four years of brutal incarceration in a Japanese prison camp, he and Pamela married, but it became obvious that Donald had been scarred deeply and eventually he was confined to hospital. Pamela, trying to discover the key to understanding the man she loved, eventually found a mathematician who would unravel the code...
