 One features 17-year-old visitor Jacob Todd during the 50-year commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought; the other features 19-year-old Geertrui late in the German occupation of the Netherlands.It was the fifth of six novels in the series Chambers calls "The Dance Sequence", which he inaugurated in 1978 with "Breaktime".Chambers won the annual Carnegie Medal, from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.