The war and all the horror and loss and destruction were not irrelevant – it impacted everyone – but in many ways, the war had given her her life back. She had Liesl and Erich, she had moved back to Ballycreggan, she married her soulmate…all because of Hitler. She hated him, of course, but if he hadn’t done what he did, then she would probably still be a lonely spinster, living half a life.
