This novella captures the time of post-war England and tells the true story of the criminal case of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, charged with the murder of a police officer one November night. Clara Patten, an idealistic and naive teenager, struggles through her first job, her first boyfriend and her first argument with her parents, while searching for the truth behind the murder of PC Miles and Bentley's incriminating words: 'Let him have it, Chris.'