A Summer Promise

by Katie Flynn

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From the bestselling author Katie Flynn. Growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, Maddy Hebditch can't imagine the changes that war will bring when she joins the ATS

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Maddy Hebditch has been living in poverty with her cantankerous grandmother since she was orphaned when she was just five, and it’s a constant struggle to stay out of the workhouse.

However, though life is hard, Maddy has her friends Alice, Marigold and Tom to help her. Together the four spend their summers exploring the Dales and making plans for the future.

Until war breaks out and everything changes.

As the four go their separate ways, Maddy joins the ATS, where she is recruited for one of the most dangerous jobs a woman could do in wartime: the Ack Ack sites.

All four face dangers as the war worsens, but when Tom is terribly injured, Maddy’s world falls apart…

  • ISBN10 1780892306
  • ISBN13 9781780892306
  • Publish Date 26 February 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 January 2017
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint Century
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Language English