Wartime Friends

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Her family works hard for the Dunsmore estate and Eveleen finds it impossible to resist the charms of their employer's son, Stephen Dunsmore.

As the First World War breaks out, Eveleen, a sophisticated young woman, is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over twenty years, sharing the joys and sorrows of a tough life as the wives of fishermen in Grimsby. Abandoned outside an orphange as a newborn baby, spirited Maddie March has had to fight her way through life. I always enjoy Margaret Dickinson's books and what I loved about this one is that you didn't really know how Kathy's story was going to end because you didn't know which man Kathy was going to be with in the end but you just keep hoping she is with her child in the end.There has always been a lot of secrecy about her supposed grandfather but no one ever wanted to tell her the truth about him. One of the little stories I liked, that make it real, is how when ATF girls arrived they were told to be careful never to walk across the middle of the field if it snowed, because from the air their footprints could be seen.

It turned out to be a very popular work and due to public demand, Margaret decided to make it into a trilogy. But Esther is a woman that can work as hard as any man and it is not long before he earns her employer’s grudging affection and respect. Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Posted to a newly built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as a R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth. It is Pips's young niece, Daisy, on whom the family dotes, who brings them joy and hope for the future.Carolyn and Beryl are posted to Beaumanor Hall as 'listeners', the most difficult of signals intelligence gathering, intercepting enemy messages which are then sent to Bletchley Park for deciphering.