GRACIE'S SIN

From the popular Lakeland Sagas series written by the Lancashire teacher and bookseller of bestselling historical fiction, in this novel war puts friendship to the test, but can friends unite against their true enemy? It is 1942 and three young women join the Women's Timber Corps, eager to do their bit for the war effort. Buxom and bouncy, red-headed Lou is newly married and sees her training in Cornwall as a way of staying near her sailor husband. Petite, blonde Gracie is making a break from her quarrelling, interfering parents and Rosie wants to escape from her bully of a brother. Rosie is swept off her feet by an American GI but her dream of returning to the States as his wife is cruelly shattered when he tells her he is already married. Gracie falls in love with a German POW, earning the hatred of villagers and colleagues alike, and Lou has to deal with the news that her husband is missing in action. 341pp in paperback reprint of the 2002 original.