A CITY girl discovers that joining the wartime Land Army isn’t quite the rural dream that she had imagined in a moving and dramatic new saga. Derbyshire-based journalist Shirley Mann (pictured below) follows up her compelling sagas, Lily’s War and Bobby’s War, with another exciting, emotion-filled celebration of the role of women on the home front as we are swept into the lives of the young women who worked on the land to keep the country fed.
It's 1942 and at nineteen years old Hannah Compton has the
world at her feet. But with war raging, the country is in turmoil and Hannah
decides to do her bit for the war effort. Hannah’s beloved grandfather taught
her to grow vegetables in his market garden and this inspires her to become one
of over 200,000 women joining the Land Army.
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Posted to Salhouse Farm on the outskirts of Norwich, Hannah
is excited for the adventure ahead of her but soon reality hits. Hannah is a
city girl at heart and life in the countryside is not what she imagined. It’s
cold, she hates the hard work, she misses her friends back in Manchester and
she has to share a double bed with a stranger.
Mann plunges readers into the hardships faced by women in an
often alien environment where the work was incredibly physical, the weather was
unpredictable and field after field had to be sown, harvested and re-sown. Set against a backdrop full of rich period detail, including
the plight of German PoWs, an addictive layer of nostalgia, intrigue, romance
and the realities of life in a hidden corner of the home front, Hannah’s War is
a saga full of history, heart and wartime heritage.
(Zaffre, paperback, £7.99)
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