Title: War Brides
Description: As evacuation gets underway and Britain waits for the Luftwaffe to arrive, the lives of five very different women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors.Evangeline has eloped from New Orleans with naval captain Richard Fairfax. A Sussex village is about as far away from home as she can possibly imagine, but brings her nearer to her true love - Laurent, who has fled to France.Alice is resigned to life as the parish spinster, but the war will bring her friendships and passion she could never have foreseen.Elsie leaves her East End home at fifteen, to become an under-house maid for Lady Marchmount.  She soon catches the eye of another young evacuee - Bernie Carpenter.Tanni has fled from Vienna, and arrives in Crowmarsh Priors with her newborn son, not knowing if her family are alive or if she will ever see them again...Frances is to see out the war with her godmother, Lady Marchmont. She has lived a carefree life of privilege, but now her desire to help her friend, Tanni, leads her into a whole new world of danger and excitement...Together these five women will face hardship, passion and danger. They form a bond that lasts for the rest of their lives and sees them through their darkest hours
Subjects: Fiction, Mythology, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, general