This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless.
Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a r.
She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin.
London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside.
This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless