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Wartime in the Dales

A gritty, heart-warming Yorkshire saga set in World War Two

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Wartime in the Dales

By: Diane Allen
Narrated by: Mira Dovreni
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September 1939.

Young 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 the hall and the vicarage are far different to what the girls are used to – and both girls are very homesick. Though, Maggie finds friendship in the form of Alice – a young servant at the hall who takes her under her wing.

But change is coming to the Dales, leaving the girls to harbour desperate plans of running back to Liverpool . . .

From Diane Allen, Wartime in the Dales is a heartfelt, comforting tale of family, evacuation and dreaming of a better life.

20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Parenting & Families Relationships Small Town & Rural Teenagers Village Heartfelt England

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Critic reviews

A warm-hearted and compassionate tale, evoking the long and tough working hours of farming life, but Allen also brings us romance, the shining light of shared adversity and proof of the enduring power of love and family to transform even the darkest days
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