A heartrending story of family tragedy, Land Girls and lost love from bestselling author Dee Williams. When twenty-year-old London girl Babs Scott's parents are killed in an air raid, she is desperate to leave the city. She joins the land army and is posted to a farm near Sussex. There she meets Lydi Johnson, the daughter of the wealthy farm owners, who takes Babs under her wing. When Mr Johnson suffers a stroke, handsome Italian POW Mario begins to help out at the farm and Babs and Mario soon become smitten with one another. But as the war ends Mario suddenly leaves. Babs is heartbroken and returns to Rotherhithe, eventually marrying a local man. As her violent marriage begins to fall apart, she knows she must escape before it's too late...
- ISBN10 0755339576
- ISBN13 9780755339570
- Publish Date 15 July 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Book Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English