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Flynn, Katie, 1936-

A summer promise / Katie Flynn. - 387 pages ; 24 cm.

Growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, Maddy Hebditch can't imagine the changes that war will bring when she joins the ATS. Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has been in the family for generations, but her grandmother is struggling to cope, but determined that no matter what happens, the two of them will not be forced into the workhouse. Though life is tough, Maddy manages to gain a scholarship to the local school. As war is declared, Maddy and her friends join up, leaving the beautiful Dales for the dangerous work of manning the Ack Ack sites.

ISBN: 9781780892306 (hbk) 1780892306 (hbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Young women--England--Fiction.
Country life--England--Yorkshire Dales--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--England--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Liverpool (England)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92