Wartime in the Dales

<p><b>Diane Allen's <i>The Yorkshire Farm Girl </i>is a heartfelt novel of a family dreaming of a better life when WW2 looms on the horizon.</b><br><br><i><b>September 1939.</b></i><br><br>Friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire.<br><br>Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave, while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord Bradley.<br><br>Both girls at the hall and the vicarage are far different to what they are used to &ndash; and both are very homesick. Though Maggie finds friendship too in the form of Alice, a young servant at the hall who takes Maggie under her wing.<br><br>But change is coming to the Dales too, leaving the girls feeling harboring desperate plans of run away, back to Liverpool . . .</p>