Your Move is a work of fiction based on an actual event that occurred in north-eastern Poland just months after the war ended in 1945: The arrest and disappearance, from a small village, of around 600 people. But our story begins in 1973 when two strangers – a young man, Evelyn Copeland (researcher for a visiting professor and historian at the Birkbeck, University of London) and a young woman, Krystyna Lewandoska (professional student and daughter of the Polish Cultural Attaché in London) – meet in a park in central London over a game of chess. When Krystyna sacrifices her queen to attain a winning position, Evelyn inadvertently places the captured piece in his pocket. Only after the game is finished and she has left the park does he become aware her chess piece is still in his pocket. In the search for each other that follows – he, to return the queen; she, to recover it – secrets are uncovered that have remained hidden for three decades: about her father Jakub, the Polish diplomat, and his collaborating with first, the Nazis, and second, the Soviets. About his brother Balint, a sergeant in the Polish Home-Army, who, having been arrested by the Russians following the German retreat, escapes, leaving his wife and baby behind. And about a second woman who gave birth to a baby girl, Aniela, at the same time. Following a trail that leads through a labyrinth of lies, betrayal and death; and a discovery that involves a mass murder, an event that more than one person wants to remain buried forever; only then can Evelyn rewrite a page in history and Krystyna discover the truth about who she really is.