The story is set in 1943. Thirteen-year-old Conor Cleary lives with his mother and elderly relation in a cottage in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Nothing much happens in Conor's life; that is, until the United States Army are posted in Fermanagh on their way to fight in mainland Europe during the Second World War. Conor Cleary makes friends with the US soldiers, and one becomes his best friend, private First Class Thomas Shulman, an American soldier from Brooklyn, New York.
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