Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina. They are living with Laura's sister Millie and her seven children so when Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation, she is delighted. Life is very different for the Brewsters, living on Manor Farm in Herefordshire. Danny and his girlfriend, Sophie, intend to marry one day so that they can run Manor Farm together but his cousin and best friend, Phil Ryland, feels differently. He longs to get away from farming and intends to escape as soon as he can. Then war comes and changes everything. Tina is evacuated and Tess joins the Land Army. She means to be true to her boyfriend, Mike, but he is far away. Danny and Phil join the RAF, Danny to pilot bombers and Phil as navigator. They end up on the same airfield and fall in love with the same girl...But Phil has a secret which could end his chance of happiness, and Danny is the only person who knows what that secret is...
- ISBN10 0434017019
- ISBN13 9780434017010
- Publish Date 7 December 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint William Heinemann Ltd
- Edition Library Ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English