num_pages: 555
description: An International Bestseller It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Friends Judy Melton, Meggie Gore-Steward, Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes are all, in their individual ways, determined to play an active part in the defense of their country. But knitting socks and bomb dodging are not what they have in mind.
language: English
title: The Chestnut Tree
titlecomplete: The Chestnut Tree
genres: Fiction, War, Romance, Novels, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, World War II
ratings_count: 403
places: Sussex, England
series: The Bexham Trilogy
publisher: Thorndike Press