I am thrilled to introduce Rosie Hendry's latest family saga A Wartime Welcome at Rookery House which will seem familiar to readers of her Mother's Day Club series. My reviews can be found here: The Mother's Day Club. | Mother's Day Victory.
Follow the much-loved characters from the award winning
MOTHER’S DAY CLUB in a brand-new World War Two saga series.
October 1940
When VAD nurse Evie narrowly avoids being killed in an air
raid during the Blitz, it propels her to make a life-changing decision to break
free of her troubled and unhappy life. She escapes to the Norfolk countryside
to start afresh, with a job at the newly opened Great Plumstead Hall hospital,
and a wonderful new home at Rookery House.
The community of Great Plumstead welcomes more evacuees to
the village – mothers and children bombed out of their London homes. Sisters
Prue and Thea, along with members of The Mother’s Day Club, help the new
arrivals settle in, while continuing their work for the war effort by holding
knitting bees, socials and doing WVS work.
Evie is happy in her new life – she loves living at Rookery
House and enjoys her job at the hospital, despite working for the difficult
Matron Reed. But when a patient arrives who knew her in her former life, Evie’s
new-found freedom and happiness is in danger. Will the secrets of Evie’s past
be revealed, and the problems from her old life return to trouble her once
more?
My Thoughts
I was delighted to see that the stories about life in Great Plumstead were to continue and that a new series was to be centred around the wonderful Rookery House. Thea and her sister, Prue, are such strongly drawn characters and show such empathy for the evacuees who are billeted in the village. It was great to glimpse how life continues in the village or elsewhere for the Mother's Day Club and with new characters added through the newly established hospital for wounded soldiers, you feel that you are seeing a whole range of aspects of life on the Home Front.
With well researched period detail, you see that not everyone takes to life as an evacuee. Some return to Blitz torn London. Fighting intrudes on life in the village from the skies and you can sense the unease as the villagers run for cover at times. This promises to be a great series which includes familiar characters and newer ones. You can see that the women of the village are its backbone as they 'make do and mend' and try to take on all aspects of life. Community, comradeship and courage are all hallmarks of this wartime read.
In short: Life on the Home Front enthrals
About the Author
Rosie Hendry lives by the sea in North Norfolk with her
husband and children. She writes uplifting, heart-warming historical fiction
based on true events from our social history. Listening to her father’s tales
of life during the Second World War sparked her interest in this period and she
loves researching further, seeking out gems of real-life stories which inspire
her writing.
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