Green Hands

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Synopsis
It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of 'lending a hand on the land', as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high.Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. Detailing their friendship, daily struggles and romantic intrigues with a lightness of touch, Barbara Whitton's autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Women's Land Army during the Second World War."Tales from the home front are always more authentic when written from personal experience, as is the case here. Barbara Whitton evokes the highs and lows, joys and agonies of being a Land Girl in the Second World War." -- Julie Summers"Witty, warm and hugely endearing, Barbara Whitton s Green Hands is full of engaging characters, burgeoning friendships and pure hard-graft. A lovely novel for anyone interested in wartime Britain, it leaves the reader with renewed admiration for the indefatigable work of the Women s Land Army." --AJ Pearce(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Limited
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781472282804
Publisher:
Headline
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Copyrighted By:
The Estate of Barbara Whitton
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Narrated By:
Katy Sobey
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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