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Keep the Home Fires Burning
First published 2015
The war has not ended by Christmas, and in 1915 the Hunters must learn to live with a conflict that now seems capable of lasting for years. Diana watches her fiancé leave for active service while David prepares to go to the Front, deepening Beattie's fear for her children. In the servants' hall, Ethel tries to build a future with railwayman Eric, believing his work may keep him away from the fighting.
As casualties mount, the boundary between battlefield and home front becomes increasingly thin. Families wait for letters, women take on new responsibilities and the household absorbs each new report of the war. The second volume turns the shock of 1914 into the harder reality of endurance, showing how uncertainty and separation become ordinary features of daily life.
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