Weights and Measures is an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader. It follows an outwardly ordinary family, living in a working class suburb of Swansea, during the early days of World War II, exploring inner lives of fear, passion, and hope. Preoccupied with their secrets, they live in almost suspended animation, waiting for an end to the weeks and months of apparent nothing - the so-called 'phoney war.' None of them are prepared for the real war when it begins - devastating and senseless, reconfiguring their lives forever. But out of tragedy, there is a speck of hope...