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Product details
- ISBN 9781912423262
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Imperial War Museum
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural
Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of 'lending a hand on the land', as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high.
Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. Detailing their friendship, daily struggles and romantic intrigues with a lightness of touch, Barbara Whitton's autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Women's Land Army during the Second World War.
Barbara Whitton is the pseudonym for Margaret Hazel Watson (1921–2016). During World War II, she served as a volunteer for Britain in the the Women’s Land Army (WLA), the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) as a driver. She chronicled her wartime experience in stories and novels.
