TY - GEN AU - Evans,Pamela TI - A distant dream SN - 9781444818772 (hbk.) PY - 2014/// CY - Leicester PB - Thorpe KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - England KW - London KW - Fiction KW - Interpersonal relations KW - London (England) KW - History KW - 1900s (20th century) KW - Family KW - Genre KW - Large type books KW - lcsh N2 - It is 1936 and, having endured the worst of the Depression, May Stubbs and her family hope for a brighter future. But then May contracts the dreaded tuberculosis and she is sent away to the country to recover. Being separated from her best friend, Betty Lane, and her childhood sweetheart, George Bailey, is hard for May but she makes new friends who encourage her to fight off her illness. It is only on her return home that the enormity of what has happened while she's been away hits her. There are times when May's happiness seems nothing but a distant dream, and when war breaks out she must learn to forgive and forget in order to survive ER -