Morag, Vallery, and Jannie met the Reid boys when they all worked together before the war. When the boys returned from war, Berry married Vallery, but the old ties between them all remained.
Susan Sallis was the author of over twenty bestselling novels, many of them set in the West Country. She was born in Gloucestershire and lived in Somerset with her family. She died in 2020.
I wonder how the inspiration for this story began...three schoolgirls, protected, naive (mostly), free from parental constraints; three boy - men, brothers... In any case, I became obsessed and had to use each spare moment to read on. Well done, Susan Sallis. Another hit.