Edie’s Home for Orphans

Edie’s hopes of serving overseas are dashed when she’s sent to be a Land Girl in a sleepy Cumbrian village. Prue has shut the world out since her son went away to fight. Yet when asked to take in a Land Girl and two little evacuees from London, she has no choice. Edie’s heart breaks seeing the children’s cold welcome. But when the evacuees take in a stray puppy, even Prue can’t say no. Edie realises Applefield Manor could become a sanctuary. But can she persuade Prue to open her heart, and her home? A moving, uplifting wartime story that fans of Glynis Peters’ will love. ‘A plucky heroine whose heart embraces any stray animal amidst a cast of – this is set against the backdrop of the Second World War’ , author of ‘An read which will ’ , author of