Land Girls
3 primary works
Book 1
A heartwarming historical novel set on the Homefront during World War Two. For fans of Kathryn Hughes.
Land Girl Connie Carter thought she’d finally left her past behind once and for all when she married Henry Jameson, Helmstead’s vicar and the love of her life. Headstrong Connie and mild-mannered Henry might be different as chalk and cheese, but she’s determined to be the best wife she can be and prove the village gossips wrong! But Connie doesn’t really believe that she belongs in Henry’s genteel world of tea-drinking and jam-making, and the cracks are already starting to show.
When Connie’s heroism makes her front page news, her past comes back to haunt her in a terrifying way. A different kind of war has come to Helmstead, and soon it’s a fight for both their marriage and their lives…
Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls in this moving saga from the creator and writer of the popular, award-winning BBC dramaBook 2
‘I’ll come for you, Iris. Mark my words!’
When a murder rocks the quiet village of Helmstead, seventeen-year-old Land Girl, Iris Dawson, is determined to prove her friend and local gamekeeper Frank Tucker’s innocence. But when she exposes Vernon Storey, the real murderer, her once happy life at Pasture Farm soon becomes a nightmare. Already running from the ghosts of her past back home in Northampton, Iris is now haunted by Vernon, who is out there somewhere and has promised to have his revenge.
Iris has never forgiven herself for the tragedy that destroyed her family and how, as a child, she failed her mother, and now the new surrogate family she has at Pasture Farm is fracturing around her. No one believes she is in danger, or that those she loves could also be Vernon’s targets in his bid to escape the law, so she must face this battle on her own. A battle that this time, Iris cannot afford to lose, culminating in a desperate race against time to save another innocent life, and to take back her own, once and for all.
Book 3
It’s the last Christmas of the war but will things ever be the same again?
Christmas 1944
Despite the food rationing and the bitterly cold weather, the land girls of Pasture Farm, Connie Carter, Joyce Fisher and Esther Reeves, are determined to celebrate this Christmas in style. The fighting might still be raging, but they all hope this could be the last Christmas of this dreaded war.
But as the day approaches, word spreads in sleepy Helmstead that two German Airmen are on the run. With everyone on high alert, the mood is tense and the women take no chances. Until the German airmen find them…
Trapped at Pasture Farm with the enemy, the women are determined to find a way to freedom and overpower the airmen. But it means risking everything… including their lives.
Readers are LOVING Christmas on the Home Front…⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved loved this book. The author captures it in a way that you are a part of the story itself! Amazing! Read it in one sitting ’ Carly, NetGalley Reviewer
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What an utterly FANTASTIC book. I was totally captivated and transported back in time, excellent plot and so well executed nothing was left out' Jeanie, NetGalley
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved this saga. Beautiful setting, characters and add in Christmas, a warm wonderful novel. Will be recommending this to all readers who want to escape the real world into this magical one' Abby, NetGalley
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fantastic read with all the characters we love' Lisa, NetGalley