Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

by JuliaStoneham (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.29

  For ten volunteer Land Girls assigned to a Devonshire farm, the increasing momentum of war in Europe transcends the tensions of their traditionally estranged backgrounds and drives them together to support each other in matters of love, family and belief. Alice Todd, shaken by the trials of her own life, must prove herself a capable Warden to the tough country folk and an uncompromising farm owner, while providing for her young son and contending with the whims of her newly liberated charges.

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.44

  It is England, 1943. The country is at war with so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her young son. She is offered the job of looking after the group of land girls at Lower Post Stone Farm and soon discovers they each have a story - and some have secrets they'd rather not reveal. The harsh times of war are tempered by the Saturday evening dances in the local hall, but as the hostilities continue, it is clear to Alice that there is more tragedy to follow closer to home. Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings is the evocative and compelling story of the sacrifices made during wartime and the indomitable spirit of those left behind, from a writer of the much-loved drama series The House of Eliott .