An evocative tale set in Cornwall during the First World War - Apprentice seamstresses Maud and Belinda find their days are full of fiddly alterations and difficult customers. But life changes dramatically for the girls in Penzance when the First World War rears its head. Belinda suddenly finds and enjoys a new independence and when her beau enlists, Maud learns how harsh love can be before its hardly started . . .
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Aitken returns to Penzance, Cornwall, at the beginning of World War I, when Maud Olds and Belinda Richards are apprenticed to the local dress shop as seamstresses. Although they know they are very lucky to be there, they do attempt, from time to time, to escape the stern, watchful eye of their patroness. Maud hopes a young man from a neighboring town is going to ask her to marry him. Belinda has, or says she has, a string of young men who are taken with her. Maud is correct, he is about to propose, but he asks that she wait until after the war to make it official. When Belinda realizes she may be left without any prospects as all the men go to battle, she settles for a not-so-honorable young man. The war turns both women’s lives around, bringing sorrow to one and opportunity to the other, in Aitken’s honestly rendered account of how outside forces change the direction of even the humblest lives. --Maria Hatton
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the grandaughter of a miner killed in the Levant mine disaster. She has had three novels published under her own names as well as various textbooks poems, stories, and plays.
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