Overview
Another heartfelt novel from Diane Allen, Wartime in the Dales is a tale of two young girls doing all they can to get home in 1939 Yorkshire.
September 1939.
Friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire.
Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave, while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord Bradley.
Both girls at the hall and the vicarage are far different to what they are used to – and both are very homesick. Though Maggie finds friendship too in the form of Alice, a young servant at the hall who takes Maggie under her wing.
But change is coming to the Dales too, leaving the girls feeling harboring desperate plans of run away, back to Liverpool . . .
- | Author: Diane Allen
- | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2024
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781529093070
- | ISBN-10: 1529093074
