Meg Turner lives on a lonely farm in the bleak but beautiful mountains of the English Lake District with a bully of a father. She loves Jack, with his dark good looks but loyalties are threatened as World War Two approaches and Meg realises that the only thing she can count on is her passion for the land she loves. Until a stranger arrives in the dale and her world changes for ever.
Born in Lancashire, I've been a teacher, bookseller and in a mad moment, a smallholder on the freezing fells of the Lake District where I tried my hand at the ‘good life’, kept sheep and hens, various orphaned cats and dogs, built drystone walls, planted a small wood and even learned how to make jam. I now spend the winter in Spain and summer in the UK. I have now published 48 books including many bestselling family sagas and historical novels. For more information, visit my website www.fredalightfoot.co.uk.
An enthralling book that kept me reading until the small hours. Meg is an amazing character and illustrates the strength of women farming and especially during the war.
A fascinating snapshot of The Lake District just before the second world war, showing the lack of women's rights and the endemic poverty. However, after that dreary sentence, I can also report that it was a very interesting story, which kept my nose in the book until the end, and prompted me to buy the sequel.