Dragon Land

When six-year-old Lizzie Flint's father is killed in the trenches of the First World War, she knows life will never be the same again. Lizzie's mother becomes isolated and embittered, and Lizzie grows up taking care of her mother. After her mother passes away, Lizzie finally tastes freedom when she travels to Hong Kong to be a teacher. There she falls in love with Jonas O'Neill and they marry and move to Shanghai, where they have a son. But as the Japanese army advances towards China, the family finds itself separated by the turmoil of war. Can Lizzie win her own battles and reunite her family?