I really loved this Book, it is one of those books that you get into from the first few pages and here we meet April, a young nurse in ww2 London, who after a horrendous bomb attack loses the only member of her family, her father. Now all alone she wants to find out about her mother's family, and she gets a transfer to Cornwall, where her mother lived as a girl. Soon she settles into her new job at Truro hospital and makes new friends, but is everyone as friendly as she would wish them to be. With the arrival of the Americans nearby this causes excitement for the nurses and romances soon start up.
The subject of racial discrimination is also covered quite a bit, not only from the Cornish people but also amongst the American G.I.s themselves with segregation in bars and cafes.
I would have liked this story to have continued more, but maybe that's to come in another book (I hope so).
The recipe at the end of the book looks very nice and one I will be making for my family.
The subject of racial discrimination is also covered quite a bit, not only from the Cornish people but also amongst the American G.I.s themselves with segregation in bars and cafes.
I would have liked this story to have continued more, but maybe that's to come in another book (I hope so).
The recipe at the end of the book looks very nice and one I will be making for my family.