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Wartime in the Dales
Wartime in the Dales
paperback
Published:
15 August, 2024
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Description
September 1939.
Young 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 girls are very homesick. Though, Maggie finds friendship in the form of Alice – a young servant at the hall who takes her under her wing.
But change is coming to the Dales, leaving the girls to harbour desperate plans of running back to Liverpool . . .
From Diane Allen, Wartime in the Dales is a heartfelt, comforting tale of family, evacuation and dreaming of a better life.
'Warm-hearted and compassionate' – Lancashire Post
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529093070 |
| ISBN10 | 1529093074 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 222 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 196 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A warm-hearted and compassionate tale, evoking the long and tough working hours of farming life, but Allen also brings us romance, the shining light of shared adversity and proof of the enduring power of love and family to transform even the darkest days * Lancashire Post *
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Author's Bio
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.