However, there were moments when the writing seemed a little clumsy, with perhaps too many different story lines being thrown in together. Little visual details are often noted about the characters, helping to create pictures in your mind of each one. We meet a wide range of characters through the story as the quiet warden Alice faces up to the challenges of mothering eight very different girls, from loud and loose Marion, pacifist Georgina, bullying Gwennan through to introverted little Hester. However, even here they find that they aren't protected from the hostilities, and the tragedies that enter their lives serve to bring them closer together as a make-shift family. Mostly the horrors and tragedies of war seem very distant to the girls as they struggle more with the horrors of sharing bath water, their blisters from hard farm work and living in a cold, isolated farmhouse. She has to find a way to support herself and her young son, Edward, so she applies for the post of Warden on a farm, taking care of a group of young women working as Land Girls. Summary: Slightly clumsy, yet still endearing novel that transports you back to the hardships and joys of World War Two Land Girls.ĭuring the Second World War many women in Britain were seeing their men leave them to go and fight, but Alice Todd finds herself abandoned by her husband for a younger woman.
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