Wartime in the Dales
Seiten
2024
MacMillan (Verlag)
978-1-5290-9306-3 (ISBN)
MacMillan (Verlag)
978-1-5290-9306-3 (ISBN)
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.
Diane Allen's The Yorkshire Farm Girl is a heartfelt novel of a family dreaming of a better life when WW2 looms on the horizon.
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 girls at the hall and the vicarage are far different to what they 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 Maggie under her wing.
But change is coming to the Dales too, leaving the girls feeling harboring desperate plans of run away, back to Liverpool . . .
Diane Allen's The Yorkshire Farm Girl is a heartfelt novel of a family dreaming of a better life when WW2 looms on the horizon.
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 girls at the hall and the vicarage are far different to what they 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 Maggie under her wing.
But change is coming to the Dales too, leaving the girls feeling harboring desperate plans of run away, back to Liverpool . . .
Diane Allen was born in Leeds, but raised at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. After working as a glass engraver, raising a family and looking after an ill father, she found her true niche in life, joining a large-print publishing firm in 1990. She now concentrates on her writing full time, and is Honorary Vice President of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Diane's novels include A Precious Daughter, The Girl from the Tanner's Yard and The Miner's Wife. Diane and her husband Ronnie live in the Dales market town of Settle, and have two children and four beautiful grandchildren.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 524 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen | |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5290-9306-6 / 1529093066 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5290-9306-3 / 9781529093063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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