Just two years after the death of their mother, Hector Stewart tells his children he plans to remarry & has chosen a distant
...Theo Miller is young, bright & ambitious when he & his earnest younger sister Maud step off the train into the simmering heat
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Neil is just eighteen when war breaks out, & she's keen to do her bit, which means leaving her safe office job & starting to train as an auxiliary nurse. This will bring her into contact with women of all ages & from very different parts of society
- & it will also bring her face to face with the grim realities of war. But she has a secret to comfort her: a soldier she's met & fallen in love with, who's promised to return to marry her.
Then the unthinkable happens: bombs fall on York. & for Nell, this coincides with a dreadful tragedy that she can share with nobody. As she witnesses the destruction of all she holds dear, she must draw on all her resolve to carry on, overcoming her hidden sorrow. But she never forgets; & she never gives up hope that one day things will be right again.