Second World War drama about a woman who watches her love go off to war and how when he returns he finds a very different girl from the one he left behind. A good romantic read.
Annie Cross has few pleasures in her tough life. On the bleak family farm on the Essex marshlands, she slaves all day for her cruel father. The one thing that keeps her going is her secret meetings with Tom Featherstone.
But War steals Tom from her when he joins the RAF. Annie would love to do her bit but stuck on the farm, she lives for Tom's letters - until they stop coming.
When, against the odds, her beloved Tom returns, he finds a different, stronger Annie to the one he left behind. But he also finds the girl he loved is carrying another man's child...
Patricia Burns spent her childhood messing about in boats, then tried a number of jobs before training to be a teacher. She is now married for the second time and is doing all the things she never had time for earlier in life.
