Wartime in the Dales - A gritty, heart-warming Yorkshire saga set in World War Two

September 1939. Friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire. Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord Bradley. Both the hall and the vicarage are far different to what the girls are used to - and both are very homesick. Though Maggie finds friendship too in the form of Alice, a young servant at the hall who takes her under her wing. But change is coming to the Dales too leaving the girls feeling harboring desperate plans of run away, back to Liverpool . . .

Résumé

Another heartfelt novel from Diane Allen, Wartime in the Dales is a tale of two young girls doing all they can to get home in 1939 Yorkshire.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Diane Allen, Allen Diane
• Edition: Pan Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 15.08.2024
• EAN: 9781529093070
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9307-0
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Contes, légendes; Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Liverpool, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Adolescence, Family life fiction, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)