ANOTHER WARTIME CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE, AND PREPARATIONS ARE IN FULL SWING FOR THE FESTIVE CELEBRATIONS.October 1941Marianne Fordham has a lot cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter Emily and working on dressmaking commissions, she is desperately worried about her pilot-officer husband, Alex, who is flying ops over enemy territory. And added to everything, Marianne has a new baby almost due…Thea welcomes her best friend, Violet Steele , to Rookery House. Violet has been in charge of an ambulance station in London’s East End during the horrors of the Blitz and is in need of a holiday. Will a week in the countryside give her the much-needed rest she deserves?VAD nurse Evie Jones receives unwelcome news that stirs up her past and forces her to make an uncomfortable decision. Though she has a surprise when her friend and former patient at Great Plumstead Hall hospital, Ned Blythe, returns to start a new job in the hospital gardens. Can Evie let go of the past and give her future happiness a chance?Rookery House’s family of strong, caring women are always there for each other, no matter what challenges wartime brings them.An emotional and heart-warming novel following the much-loved characters from the Rookery House series by award winning author Rosie Hendry.
