Wartime in the Dales
A gritty, heart-warming Yorkshire saga set in World War Two
$53.97
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
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 di…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529093063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529093066 |
| Author: | Diane Allen |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 524g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 162mm x 30mm |
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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 *
About The Author
Diane Allen
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.
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