TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flynn,Katie
TI  - A summer promise
SN  - 9781780892306 (hbk)
U1  - 823.92 23
KW  - Grandmothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Young women
KW  - England
KW  - Country life
KW  - Yorkshire Dales
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Women
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Liverpool (England)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 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
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