Title: White feathers
Description: Eva Downey jumps at the chance to attend finishing school, especially as she is about to be pushed into marriage by her overbearing stepmother. There she finds kinship and, eventually, love. But the man she loves refuses to enlist when war breaks out in 1914, and her family forces her to give him a white feather of cowardice - an act of betrayal with devastating consequences.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, Conscientious objection, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1914-1918, fiction
Places: Great Britain